141 lots recorded in six plats between December 26 and 28, 1989, with a median parcel of exactly 2.00 acres and houses dating from 1994.
Palatine went on record in three days. Six plats were recorded between December 26 and 28, 1989 for Dumont Oaks Corporation, and the result is one of the most uniform lot patterns in Potomac: 141 parcels with a median size of exactly 2.00 acres. The houses came later, from 1994 onward, which makes it a comparatively recent subdivision in an area whose housing stock is mostly older. Two things are commonly gotten wrong about it — its school assignment and its name — and both are worth settling before you shop it.
The original recording is unusually compressed: six plats between December 26 and 28, 1989, by Dumont Oaks Corporation. Additional lots were recorded through June 5, 2001, and the subdivision as searched includes Sutton's Addition. That sequence explains the character of the place — a single layout put on record at once, then filled in gradually over more than a decade, rather than a phased development where each section reads differently from the last.
Palatine is zoned RE-2, whose minimum lot area is two acres, and its median parcel measures exactly 2.00 acres. Very few Potomac subdivisions hold that close to the floor. The practical effect is consistency: comparable frontages, comparable setbacks and comparable buildable envelopes across the subdivision, which makes comparable sales here more directly readable than in neighborhoods where lot size swings from two acres to twelve. RE-2 caps lot coverage at 25 percent under the standard method as of August 2026 and caps a principal building at 50 feet; take the governing figures from the current Chapter 59 Division 4.4 tables before designing an addition.
Construction begins in 1994 and the median year built is 1998. Exteriors are genuinely mixed — brick, frame, stucco, stone and siding all appear — so the subdivision does not have the single-elevation look of a one-builder tract. For a buyer that means the exterior maintenance profile varies house to house, and stucco in particular deserves its own inspection scope rather than a general home inspection line item. Mechanical systems in a house of this age are typically into their second replacement cycle.
The street names follow one theme: Palatine Drive, Centurion Way, Tribunal Lane, Forum Hill Court. That theme is also the source of a routine mix-up. Palatine Oaks is a separate, smaller subdivision — 29 parcels, platted 1999 to 2000, in ZIP 20850 — and it has its own homeowners association. Palatine and Palatine Oaks are not the same community, do not share governance, and do not necessarily share a school assignment. Check which name is on the deed and plat, not which one is in the listing remarks.
Palatine is served by Potomac Elementary School, Herbert Hoover Middle School and Winston Churchill High School. That is worth stating directly, because a Thomas S. Wootton High School assignment is widely repeated for Palatine across aggregator sites and is unsupported by the county record. If a listing or a third-party profile says Wootton, treat it as an error to verify rather than a fact. Montgomery County Public Schools revises boundaries periodically, so confirm the current assignment for a specific address with MCPS. As of August 2026.
Palatine sits within Potomac — that guide covers the zoning, permitting and site constraints that apply across the wider area.
Artur can confirm what applies to a specific address here — lot, zoning, association documents and school assignment — before you write an offer.
