(a) Urban districts are created in the business districts of Wheaton, Bethesda, Silver Spring, and Friendship Heights as described in Section 68A-8.
(b) Except as provided in subsection (c), the department may provide the public services and facilities necessary to implement the following purposes of an urban district:
(1) maintaining the streetscape and streetscape amenities on:
(A) public rights-of-way; and
(B) any property that is used by the general public;
(2) promoting and programming public interest activities that benefit both residential and commercial interests of an urban district (and which may incidentally benefit neighboring communities), or neighboring jurisdictions if the neighboring jurisdictions share a common economic interest with the subject urban district);
(3) providing additional streetscape amenities and facade improvements;
(4) monitoring activities to enhance the safety and security of persons and property in public areas; and
(5) providing any capital project that promotes the economic stability and growth of the district.
(c) In an urban district with an urban district corporation, the department is not responsible for streetscaping of the medians and streetsweeping inside the curbs. The department is responsible for other maintenance inside, and including, the curbs. Outside of the curbs, the department is only responsible for repair of standard concrete sidewalks. The urban district corporation is responsible for brick or other non-standard sidewalk maintenance. This allocation of functions may be altered by written agreement between the department and the corporation.
(d) Urban districts are created to provide public services and facilities that are:
(1) primarily of benefit to the property and persons within the urban district rather than to the County as a whole; and
(2) in addition to services and facilities that the County provides generally.
(e) The Department may provide a service or facility outside the boundaries of an urban district if the service or facility will primarily benefit businesses or residents in the urban district. (1987 L.M.C., ch. 2, § 2; 1993 L.M.C., ch. 16, § 1; 1997 L.M.C., ch. 7, §§ 1 and 2; 1998 L.M.C., ch. 14, §1; 1999 L.M.C., ch. 22, § 1; 2023 L.M.C., ch. 14, § 1.)