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An application for a sectional or district map amendment must be submitted to the district council or its designee. In the case of a district zoning map amendment, the application must be in such form as is required under Maryland law. In the case of a sectional zoning map amendment, the application must be submitted in triplicate and include the following:
(a) The designation or description of the area sufficient to identify:
(1) The boundaries of each area proposed for the same zoning classification either by a single parcel or by groups of parcels or by streets, roads, streams or other topographic landmarks, as may be most appropriate, together with indications where such classification, if adopted, would result in changes of classification, the nature of the changes and the boundaries of the land covered by such changes.
(2) All roads, streets, alleys, governmental parks or other public areas in public ownership or on public rights-of-way and all streams and railroad rights-of-way within the area covered by the map, and the names thereof.
(b) A map or map series of the area at a scale of 200 feet to the inch prepared by a civil engineer, surveyor or designee of the Chairman of the Planning Board and certified to be correct and in conformity with this subsection.
(c) A statement describing the rationale in support of the proposed zoning changes or adjustments. The application must include the total acres in the application, and the acres proposed for rezoning and the acres proposed for reconfirmation of existing zoning.
(d) A sectional map amendment may be filed:
(1)to implement zoning changes that are recommended by a comprehensive plan or functional plan study for one or more tracts of land or a section of the Maryland-Washington Regional District within the county; or
(2)for the purpose of correcting existing zoning boundaries to enable the District Council to correct inaccurate depictions of zoning boundary lines on an adopted zoning map that are known or become apparent as the result of technical information.
(Legislative History: Ord. No. 9-46, § 3; Ord. No. 12-70, § 2; Ord. No. 15-06, §§ 1 and 3; Ord. No. 15-47, § 1.)
Editor's note—This section [formerly § 104-36] is cited in Montgomery County Council v. Kaslow, 235 Md. 45, 200 A.2d 184 (1964).
Ord. 15-06, § 1, adopted Sec. 59-H-2.6, Local Map Amendments—Metro Station Policy Areas, which expired December 21, 2003, per § 3 of that Ordinance. Ord. No. 15-47, § 1, adopted Sec. 59-H-2.6, Local Map Amendments—Metro Station Policy Areas, which expired December 31, 2005, per § 3 of that Ordinance.