To encourage the preservation of natural resources or the provision of affordable housing and to facilitate orderly development and growth, a local jurisdiction that exercises authority granted by this division may enact, and is encouraged to enact, local laws providing for or requiring: (1) the planning, staging, or provision of adequate public facilities and affordable housing; (2) off–site improvements or the dedication of land for public facilities essential for a development; (3) moderately priced dwelling unit programs; (4) mixed use developments; (5) cluster developments; (6) planned unit developments; (7) alternative subdivision requirements that: (i) meet minimum performance standards set by the local jurisdiction; and (ii) reduce infrastructure costs; (8) floating zones; (9) incentive zoning; and (10) performance zoning.
Maryland Legal Code