Anne Arundel County’s Housing Attainability Act, enacted in 2024 and effective July 1, 2025, creates the Moderately Priced Dwelling Unit Program (“MPDU Program”), which requires that all new development in the County with 10 or more units (with the exception of development in the RA-Rural Agricultural and RLD-Residential Low Density districts) contain a certain percentage of moderately priced dwelling units (“MPDUs”). A copy of the Housing Attainability Act can be accessed here.
Rental developments are required to reserve fifteen percent (15%) of total units as MPDUs for households earning 75% or below of the Area Median Income (“AMI”), adjusted for household size, for a period of 40 years.
For-sale developments are required to reserve ten (10%) of total units as MPDUs for households earning 100% or below of the AMI, adjusted for household size, for a period of 20 years.
Arundel Community Development Services, Inc. (“ACDS”) will administer the MPDU Program in conjunction with the County. ACDS has created the following policies, procedures and documents to provide more detail, as authorized by the Housing Attainability Act, in the operation and administration of the MPDU Program.
To assist in the successful launch of the MPDU Program, ACDS is providing initial drafts of these policies, procedures and documents for public comment. Upon review of all public comments and final input from the County and ACDS staff, these policies, procedures and documents will be finalized and implemented for all MPDU projects.
Additional documents related to the administration of the MPDU Program will be posted for public comment in the coming weeks.
Please provide comments on or before May 7, 2025, to ACDS at mpdu@acdsinc.org.
DRAFT DOCUMENTS:
- MPDU Design Requirements – Draft April 2025
- MPDU Program Rental Policy and Certificate of Eligibility – Draft April 2025
- MPDU For Sale Income and Sales Price Requirements – Draft April 2025
- MPDU Rental Program Guide for Leasing Agent – Draft April 2025
- MPDU For Sale – Notice of Unit Availability – Draft April 2025
- MPDU Development Agreement and Declaration of Restrictive Covenants – Draft April 2025