Greenbelt, Maryland

Greenbelt is a city in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States. Contained within today's City of Greenbelt is the historic planned community now known locally as "Old Greenbelt" and designated as the Greenbelt Historic District. Greenbelt's population was 23,068 at the 2010 U.S. Census.

Greenbelt is known widely as a public cooperative community founded in the New Deal Era. Greenbelt was one of three "green" towns planned in 1935 under the United States Resettlement Administration, along with Greendale, Wisconsin (near Milwaukee) and Greenhills, Ohio (near Cincinnati).

Geography

Greenbelt is located at 39°0′2″N 76°53′18″W / 39.00056°N 76.88833°W / 39.00056; -76.88833 (39.000460, -76.888325).

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 6.34 square miles (16.42 km²), of which, 6.28 square miles (16.27 km²) is land and 0.06 square miles (0.16 km²) is water. Greenbelt's ZIP codes are 20768, 20770, and 20771.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Goddard Space Flight Center is located in Greenbelt, as is Greenbelt Park, a unit of the National Park System.

Greenbelt station

Greenbelt is a Washington Metro and MARC station in Prince George's County, Maryland on the Green Line. It is the northeastern end of certain rush hour Yellow Line trains and the Green Line.

The station is located in Greenbelt (near Berwyn Heights, Beltsville, and the northern part of College Park), off of Cherrywood Lane near the Capital Beltway. It has a parking lot of over 3,300 spaces, and with quick access to the outerloop of the Beltway (Interstate 95 North) and from the inner loop of the Beltway (Interstate 95 South). It is a commuter station for both locals and people coming from elsewhere—such as the inner loop of the Beltway or from Baltimore. An express Metrobus service, the B30 route, is also available to Baltimore–Washington International Airport (BWI), allowing a connection to Baltimore transit services. Greenbelt Metro is also the most accessible station to NASA workers and visitors via TheBus routes 15 and 15X, as well as Metrobus routes G12, 13, 14, and 16.

Green belt

A green belt or greenbelt is a policy and land use designation used in land use planning to retain areas of largely undeveloped, wild, or agricultural land surrounding or neighbouring urban areas. Similar concepts are greenways or green wedges which have a linear character and may run through an urban area instead of around it. In essence, a green belt is an invisible line designating a border around a certain area, preventing development of the area and allowing wildlife to return and be established.

Purposes

In those countries which have them, the stated objectives of green belt policy are to:

The green belt has many benefits for people:

Franklin Park

Franklin Park may refer to some places in the United States: