The Langley Park, College Park, Greenbelt, and Vicinity Minor Plan Amendment and Sectional Map Amendment (SMA)

• The Langley Park, College Park, Greenbelt, and Vicinity Minor Plan Amendment and Sectional Map Amendment (SMA) is a process to amend the approved 1989 Master Plan and Sectional Map Amendment for the Langley Park-College Park-Greenbelt-and Vicinity Area. This concurrent process is intended to remove and replace certain obsolete development pattern guidelines, policies, and strategies to reflect the County’s current development priorities and rezone certain properties within the Master Plan’s boundaries. 
• These processes will not adjust land uses for or rezone every property within the project area but will only examine land uses and rezonings for specific properties identified in the plan. 

• Zoning, broadly speaking, determines what can and cannot be built on a property and the amount of development that can occur. For example, a property in a residential zone typically prohibits the construction of non-residential uses like restaurants and factories. 

• You own a parcel or reside at a parcel identified for potential rezoning of your property. This letter is intended to inform you of the Joint Public Hearing scheduled for March 19, 2024, and your opportunity to weigh in on the process by submitting testimony through the hearing.

• The proposed SMA document that identifies the specific properties identified for potential rezoning will be released for public review on January 16, 2024, on the project webpage. 

• The SMA is intended to enable zoning that reflects the County’s current development priorities and prohibit uses that are deemed inappropriate or obsolete. The SMA is needed to ensure consistency with and implement the recommendations of the master plan, as amended. 

• In most cases, no.

No. An SMA only changes the zoning on specific properties.