Smart Growth

PLANNING INITIATIVES
Montgomery County, Maryland

June 6, 2006

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 VISION

Rural to Urban Continuum

Montgomery County
Planning Initiatives

ƒ Agricultural and Rural Open

Space

ƒ Corridor Cities

ƒ Metro Station Areas

ƒ Neighborhoods and Centers

ƒ Commercial Centers

ƒ Avenues and Boulevards

ƒ Public Spaces
General Plan …on Wedges and Corridors 2
 CHARACTERISTICS

Agricultural and
Rural Open Space
ƒ Agricultural Reserve
ƒ Parks and Open Space
- Potomac River
- Patuxent River
- Stream Valley Parks

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 CHARACTERISTICS
Corridor Cities:
ƒ Gaithersburg Vicinity Plan
- Life Sciences Center
- Kentlands and NIST
- Metropolitan Grove
ƒ Germantown Master Plan
- Employment Corridor
- Commercial Centers
The I-270 Corridor:
ƒ System of communities
ƒ Great places to live and work
ƒ 21st century employment
centers

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 CHARACTERISTICS

Metro Station Areas

(Sector Plans)
Western Red Line:
ƒ Friendship Heights
ƒ Bethesda
ƒ Grosvenor
ƒ White Flint
ƒ Twinbrook
ƒ Rockville
ƒ Shady Grove

Eastern Red Line:

ƒ Silver Spring
ƒ Wheaton CBD
ƒ Glenmont

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 CHARACTERISTICS

Neighborhoods and Centers:

ƒ Kensington Sector Plan
ƒ Westbard Sector Plan
ƒ Takoma/Langley Plan

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 CHARACTERISTICS

Commercial Centers

ƒ Clarksburg Town Center

ƒ Olney Town Center
ƒ Damascus Town Center
ƒ Older Commercial
Centers

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 CHARACTERISTICS

Avenues and Boulevards

ƒ MD 355 - I-270 Master Plans

ƒ Georgia Avenue - Wheaton CBD
Sector Plan
ƒ University Boulevard – Kensington
Sector Plan

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 CHARACTERISTICS
Public Spaces

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 ACTIONS

• Zoning Cases (Local Map Amendments)

• Zoning Ordinance

• Road Standards

• Balance Land Use, Transportation and Public Facilities

• Design Excellence

• Real Public Participation

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 ACTIONS

Master Plan and Sector Plan Program

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