Start with your Prince George’s County Site/Road record’s original system before taking the next action. The County’s Site/Road permit guidance routes mainstream new permits to Momentum, while extensions and renewals continue in the system where the permit began. A follow-up can therefore remain in legacy ePermits even when a new application would use Momentum.
Do not assign the system from a date alone. One County page announces a July 15, 2024 process change; its broader search and history guide describes Momentum for permits applied for on or after May 1, 2023. The pages do not resolve every Site/Road record between those dates. Use the original system, record class, and requested action.
Name the action before choosing a route
- New mainstream Site/Road application: follow the current Momentum direction.
- Extension or renewal: return to the original permit system, whether ePermits or Momentum.
- Expired ePermits permit obtained before July 15, 2024, with no inspections: the County directs a new Momentum application.
- Revision predating May 1, 2023: use the County’s existing revision process.
- Named exception: Cell Tower/Special Utility, Department of the Environment, well or septic, and electrical or mechanical work associated with an existing ePermits permit retain separate directions.
These routes describe process ownership. They do not establish that a permit was approved, that inspections occurred, or that a historical attachment migrated.
Decode the Site/Road case type before you search
The letters in a Prince George’s Site/Road number tell you what was approved. The County’s Site/Road permits page lists the case types and what each covers. A leading P (PSWM, PSDRG, PSDFG and so on) marks the peer-review version of the same case.
- SWM (Site Development Concept): conceptual stormwater approval, required before entitlements and before grading or street permits. It approves a concept, not construction.
- SDRG (Rough Grading): rough grading on site and in County right-of-way, storm drains and stormwater ponds.
- SDFG (Fine Grading): fine grading plus roads, paving, storm drains, all types of stormwater facilities, sidewalks, driveways and other site work outside the building. The County says this permit is needed before building permits are issued, so for a project that needed one, the SDFG should predate the building permit.
- SCON/SCP (Street Construction): County-maintained roads and their drainage, sidewalks and signals. SGE sets street grade and alignment beforehand.
- DW (Residential Driveway): the driveway apron in the right-of-way and the parking pad.
- Others: FLOOD (100-year floodplain study), SU (special utility in the right-of-way), SDRN (private storm drain connecting to a public system), SPEC (minor site work), HAUL and OSOW (hauling and oversized vehicles).
Water and sewer are never in these files. The County notes that WSSC, gas, electric and telecom connections need separate approvals from those utilities. Fees and bonds for Site/Road permits applied for on or after January 1, 2025 are estimated from a new construction price list (Techno-gram 002-2024), so cost figures in an older file won’t match a current quote.
Search by the system’s documented identifier
The County guide describes legacy history searches by street address and legacy tracking or inspection history by permit number. For Momentum, LookSee uses an application number or address with the relevant tab. Plan Review Tracker requires an application number; records without letters or records not yet in plan review may not appear. ePlan is available to the applicant for the case and should not be treated as a public archive.
Start with one known identifier and record its label:
- Original system: ePermits, Momentum, or unresolved.
- Permit or application number exactly as shown.
- Site address and issuing jurisdiction.
- Action needed: new application, extension, renewal, revision, status, inspection history, or document copy.
- Record class, such as Site/Road or a named exception.
- Approximate filing and action dates.
The County’s search guidance doesn’t describe a parcel-number search, so start from an address or a permit number.
Reconcile a fictional system mismatch
Imagine a fictional Site/Road permit that began in ePermits in June 2024. A later user wants an extension and finds no item after entering a related project number in Momentum. The date falls within the period described differently by the two County pages, but the requested action is an extension and the original permit system is known.
Keep the ePermits permit number, search its legacy history, and request the extension through the original system. If instead that permit expired with no inspections, preserve that condition and follow the County’s new-Momentum-application direction. Do not carry the old permit’s status onto the new application.
For a general issuing-authority check, use the city-or-county permit search guide. If the question becomes whether an inspection closed the permitted scope, keep it separate with the final-inspection status guide.
Request the missing object by name
If the documented search route does not produce the needed record, use DPIE’s MPIA request instructions. The County directs requesters to its form and DPIE.MPIA@co.pg.md.us, with a clearly identified subject and a specific date or range. Fees may apply, and release depends on the agency’s review.
Ask for one named object, such as the Site/Road permit record, extension decision, renewal, revision, inspection history, plan-review letter, or identified attachment. Include the original system and every known identifier. The public-data label beginning in July 2013 is not a verified retention or completeness boundary for Site/Road files.
A missing Plan Review Tracker result may reflect the identifier format or review stage. It does not decide whether another system or a custodian-held record contains the item. Preserve what was searched and let the original system and document class drive the next step.
Prince George’s County DPIE Site/Road permits page checked October 20, 2026; search-history and MPIA pages checked October 5, 2026.