![]() All requests for address assignments, address changes, revisions to address plans, and address verifications, as well as requests for street name approvals, assignments or changes, are reviewed by the Development Application and Regulatory Coordination (DARC) Division of the Montgomery County Planning Department for Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission (M-NCPPC). The Montgomery County Planning Department has been responsible for street names and address numbers in Montgomery County since the 1950’s. A community’s safety and welfare depends on the ability of emergency services to quickly locate every property.Addressing must be given a high priority during the development review process to assure consistency. Since County residents rely on one central Police, Fire & Rescue dispatch center for public safety services, address assignment methodologies must be uniform throughout the County, regardless of whether the addresses are assigned by M-NCPPC or local jurisdictions. Uniformity is a basic requirement to assure that any given property can be quickly and easily located. In general, street names are the reference point and the assigned number creates a unique identifier for each building. Premise addresses are used daily by private citizens, postal service, delivery services, utility companies, Police Departments and Fire & Rescue Services to locate specific places. The most commonly used way to locate a specific property is the assigned premise address. An address is used to describe the specific location of a building, an apartment, or a plot of land.
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