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Greenbelt Metro Area and MD 193 Corridor Sector Plan and SMA
 Please join us for our spring workshops! Learn more about our upcoming meetings here.
On January 17, 2012, the Prince George's County District Council granted the sector plan a six-month extension. The extension will ensure that there is adequate time to analyze and incorporate the findings from our transportation analysis, develop and refine land-use scenarios with community stakeholders, and obtain feedback from county agencies on proposed recommendations, phasing, and implementation strategies.
The Prince George's County Planning Department held a community meeting on January 12, 2012 to share its existing conditions analysis of transportation data collected at key intersections in the sector plan area. To learn more, please click here to see the public presentation, here to view a summary of citizen comments and here to review the results of our transportation.
Our second newsletter is now available online!
The Prince George’s County Planning Department of The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission (M-NCPPC) is conducting a planning project to shape future growth and development in the Greenbelt Metro area and along the Greenbelt Road/MD 193 Corridor. The goal of this project is to develop an innovative approach to achieving the goals of the 2002 Prince George's County Approved General Plan for metropolitan centers and corridors to comprehensively reevaluate the area’s zoning and land use policy, transportation, and environmental issues to foster a transit-oriented, mixed-use environment compatible with surrounding communities.
This plan will:
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Build upon and update portions of the 2001 Approved Sector Plan and Sectional Map Amendment for the Greenbelt Metro Area.
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Incorporate recommendations from functional area master plans, including the Approved Countywide Green Infrastructure Plan, Approved Countywide Master Plan of Transportation, and Approved Water Resources Functional Master Plan.
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Address issues relating to land use, environmental restoration, urban design, and transportation.
The 18-month planning process established by the County Council in 2005 will guide the preparation of this effort.This page will be updated with project status reports, notices of upcoming meetings, documents produced by the planning team, and other information. Please be sure to stop by from time to time, and contact us with any questions or suggestions!
General Plan
The General Plan identifies 27 centers in the county as existing or possible future priorities for concentrations of medium- to high-intensity, mixed-use, and pedestrian-oriented development. The majority of the centers have rail transit facilities, either Metrorail or MARC lines, as the key feature. The designated centers are categorized according to three broad market orientations: metropolitan, regional, or community. Served effectively by transit, metropolitan centers have a high and diverse concentration of land uses and economic activities that attract employers, workers, and customers from other parts of the Washington region, such as large government service or major employment centers, major educational complexes, or high-intensity commercial uses. |
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