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1 THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY PLANNING DEPARTMENT THE MARYLAND-NATIONAL CAPITAL PARK AND PLANNING COMMISSION 8787 Georgia Avenue Siver Spring, Maryand Quaity of Pace THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY PLANNING DEPARTMENT

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3 C O N T A C T U S : T H E M O N T G O M E R Y C O U N T Y P L A N N I N G D E P A R T M E N T

4 THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY PLANNING DEPARTMENT THE TECHNOLOGIES Our forward-thinking researchers and GIS anaysts take the ead in deveoping poicies and reguations reated to growth management, housing (with an emphasis on affordabiity), demographics, traffic and transit, and schoo capacity. Our strategic investments in technoogy aow for innovative approaches for engaging the pubic in panning their communities and giving decision-makers new toos for charting the future. Our demographic, economic, and use, and geographic databases hep us research and anayze trends and pubic poicy issues for the Panning Board and many oca agencies. Among our activities: eading efforts on a nationay recognized growth poicy that is both fiscay and environmentay sustainabe and faciitates high-quaity growth in appropriate ocations competing fisca impact anayses for master pans preparing popuation, housing, and empoyment forecasts conducting Census update surveys coecting and anayzing demographic, and use, and economic data QUALITY OF PLACE As Montgomery County continues to attract an increasingy diverse, technoogicay savvy, we-educated popuace, the Montgomery County Panning Department focuses its skis and taents to bring high-quaity design in both form and function to a areas, from centra business districts to rura viages. With the Montgomery County Panning Board, the Panning Department manages growth to benefit those who ive, work, and visit Maryand's most popuous county. Using proven toos and innovative technoogies, the department creates and sustains great communities just north of Washington, D.C. buiding databases and maintaining data ayers that underie the county's Geographic Information System, with a new emphasis on 3D modes for visuaization and impact anaysis Design exceence

5 THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY PLANNING DEPARTMENT THE TECHNOLOGIES Our forward-thinking researchers and GIS anaysts take the ead in deveoping poicies and reguations reated to growth management, housing (with an emphasis on affordabiity), demographics, traffic and transit, and schoo capacity. Our strategic investments in technoogy aow for innovative approaches for engaging the pubic in panning their communities and giving decision-makers new toos for charting the future. Our demographic, economic, and use, and geographic databases hep us research and anayze trends and pubic poicy issues for the Panning Board and many oca agencies. Among our activities: eading efforts on a nationay recognized growth poicy that is both fiscay and environmentay sustainabe and faciitates high-quaity growth in appropriate ocations competing fisca impact anayses for master pans preparing popuation, housing, and empoyment forecasts conducting Census update surveys coecting and anayzing demographic, and use, and economic data QUALITY OF PLACE As Montgomery County continues to attract an increasingy diverse, technoogicay savvy, we-educated popuace, the Montgomery County Panning Department focuses its skis and taents to bring high-quaity design in both form and function to a areas, from centra business districts to rura viages. With the Montgomery County Panning Board, the Panning Department manages growth to benefit those who ive, work, and visit Maryand's most popuous county. Using proven toos and innovative technoogies, the department creates and sustains great communities just north of Washington, D.C. buiding databases and maintaining data ayers that underie the county's Geographic Information System, with a new emphasis on 3D modes for visuaization and impact anaysis Design exceence

6 THE BIG IDEAS HISTORIC PRESERVATION Design exceence.providing eadership to encourage the best urban design, creating a new ook and fee for the pubic ream and private spaces Inviting urban centers and rura viages.a mix of housing types, offices, retai, and attractive pubic spaces that offer paces to work, ive, and pay We work hard to promote preservation of the county's vauabe historic resources. Among our programs and activities: identifying, designating, protecting, preserving, and interpreting heritage resources for both privatey and pubicy owned sites buiding awareness of the county's historica and architectura heritage reviewing historic area work permit appications to ensure they are compatibe with the historic site or neighborhood Growth aong transit. strategies to unify and enhance communities on bus, Metro, and train ines Sustainabiity. baancing every proposed deveopment with its effect on the county's abundant natura resources Connectivity.in two senses, we're harnessing technoogies to inform panning and improve outreach whie inking peope and paces through connected swaths of green Economy.eading the discussion inking panning to economics and smart growth Every and use has its pace.preserving farmand by transferring density to urbanizing areas Inviting urban centers and rura viages Every Land Use has its Pace

7 THE BIG IDEAS HISTORIC PRESERVATION Design exceence.providing eadership to encourage the best urban design, creating a new ook and fee for the pubic ream and private spaces Inviting urban centers and rura viages.a mix of housing types, offices, retai, and attractive pubic spaces that offer paces to work, ive, and pay We work hard to promote preservation of the county's vauabe historic resources. Among our programs and activities: identifying, designating, protecting, preserving, and interpreting heritage resources for both privatey and pubicy owned sites buiding awareness of the county's historica and architectura heritage reviewing historic area work permit appications to ensure they are compatibe with the historic site or neighborhood Growth aong transit. strategies to unify and enhance communities on bus, Metro, and train ines Sustainabiity. baancing every proposed deveopment with its effect on the county's abundant natura resources Connectivity.in two senses, we're harnessing technoogies to inform panning and improve outreach whie inking peope and paces through connected swaths of green Economy.eading the discussion inking panning to economics and smart growth Every and use has its pace.preserving farmand by transferring density to urbanizing areas Inviting urban centers and rura viages Every Land Use has its Pace

8 SUSTAINABILITY We pan for sustainabe communities and baance every proposed deveopment with its effect on the environment to protect and enhance the county's natura resources. Among our programs and activities: managing the Forest Conservation Program, a high-profie reguatory program that aims to save and maintain existing forest and pant new forested areas protecting and enhancing a connected network of waterways, wetands, and other natura areas preserving wetands and stream quaity whie participating in regiona and state activities to hep protect the Chesapeake Bay and Patuxent Reservoir providing information about the impact of panned deveopment on the carbon footprint researching and promoting green buidings and green urbanism THE CONTEXT With vibrant urban centers ike Bethesda, Montgomery County has become a regiona economic force and a diverse destination in itsef, drawing residents from a over the gobe. Thanks to good panning, the county offers historic sites, cutura opportunities, recreationa resources, urban viages, and vibrant new downtowns. The Panning Department is part of The Maryand-Nationa Capita Park and Panning Commission (M-NCPPC), a bi-county agency created in 1927 to protect open space and provide panning bordering the nation's capita. Economy The county boasts a progressive government and informed, active, we-educated citizens. It offers a fu spectrum of iving environments: dense urban centers, new corridor cities, inviting suburbs, rura communities, and farms. Agricuture, in fact, thrives in Montgomery County due to the 93,000-acre Agricutura Reserve, heraded as one of the best exampes of and conservation programs in the country. In Montgomery County, we take a broad view using a forward-thinking Genera Pan that envisions deveopment custered aong major transportation routes interspersed with areas of ow-density deveopment and open space. We appy those principes with an area-by-area approach to panning great communities. Growth aong transit

9 SUSTAINABILITY We pan for sustainabe communities and baance every proposed deveopment with its effect on the environment to protect and enhance the county's natura resources. Among our programs and activities: managing the Forest Conservation Program, a high-profie reguatory program that aims to save and maintain existing forest and pant new forested areas protecting and enhancing a connected network of waterways, wetands, and other natura areas preserving wetands and stream quaity whie participating in regiona and state activities to hep protect the Chesapeake Bay and Patuxent Reservoir providing information about the impact of panned deveopment on the carbon footprint researching and promoting green buidings and green urbanism THE CONTEXT With vibrant urban centers ike Bethesda, Montgomery County has become a regiona economic force and a diverse destination in itsef, drawing residents from a over the gobe. Thanks to good panning, the county offers historic sites, cutura opportunities, recreationa resources, urban viages, and vibrant new downtowns. The Panning Department is part of The Maryand-Nationa Capita Park and Panning Commission (M-NCPPC), a bi-county agency created in 1927 to protect open space and provide panning bordering the nation's capita. Economy The county boasts a progressive government and informed, active, we-educated citizens. It offers a fu spectrum of iving environments: dense urban centers, new corridor cities, inviting suburbs, rura communities, and farms. Agricuture, in fact, thrives in Montgomery County due to the 93,000-acre Agricutura Reserve, heraded as one of the best exampes of and conservation programs in the country. In Montgomery County, we take a broad view using a forward-thinking Genera Pan that envisions deveopment custered aong major transportation routes interspersed with areas of ow-density deveopment and open space. We appy those principes with an area-by-area approach to panning great communities. Growth aong transit

10 THE WORK Our master pan program has received nationa and oca awards for panning exceence, incuding a Siver Meda from the Rudy Bruner Foundation for the downtown core of Siver Spring and a nationa award from the Congress for the New Urbanism for the Twinbrook Metro Station area. TRANSPORTATION COMMUNITY VISIONING We create great communities, starting with deveoping master pans, then reviewing deveopment n and every step in between. Our master pans and sector pans, deveoped with generous community input, guide and use and estabish zoning, environmenta features, and transportation and pedestrian mobiity. Each master pan describes the projects, priorities, and map amendments needed to impement its recommendations. We use state-of-the-art technoogy, geometric design, and panning skis to anayze transportation needs and work with stakehoders to deveop soutions. Our anayses contribute to: countywide growth poicies programs to reduce trave demand with monitoring and enforcement trave demand forecasts incuding traffic voumes and transit ridership transportation requirements for new deveopment county and state faciity panning, design review, and capita program deveopment integrated transportation networks for bikes, pedestrians, and transit as we as for autos We coordinate reviews with other oca agencies and utiities, and pubic participation is a vita part of our entire review process. Our deveopment review staff anayzes detaied project and site pans to ensure the compatibiity of a proposed project with the surrounding neighborhood. Post-approva, we inspect sites to enforce Panning Board conditions of approva. DEVELOPMENT AND DESIGN We create a quaity of pace by demanding high-quaity projects that carry out our goas, such as: environmenta protection affordabe housing density near transit pubic amenities and open space We work to ensure conformance with our master pans and compatibiity with the surrounding neighborhood. Sustainabiity We review: Project pans Preiminary pans Site pans Specia exceptions Loca map amendments Connectivity

11 THE WORK Our master pan program has received nationa and oca awards for panning exceence, incuding a Siver Meda from the Rudy Bruner Foundation for the downtown core of Siver Spring and a nationa award from the Congress for the New Urbanism for the Twinbrook Metro Station area. TRANSPORTATION COMMUNITY VISIONING We create great communities, starting with deveoping master pans, then reviewing deveopment n and every step in between. Our master pans and sector pans, deveoped with generous community input, guide and use and estabish zoning, environmenta features, and transportation and pedestrian mobiity. Each master pan describes the projects, priorities, and map amendments needed to impement its recommendations. We use state-of-the-art technoogy, geometric design, and panning skis to anayze transportation needs and work with stakehoders to deveop soutions. Our anayses contribute to: countywide growth poicies programs to reduce trave demand with monitoring and enforcement trave demand forecasts incuding traffic voumes and transit ridership transportation requirements for new deveopment county and state faciity panning, design review, and capita program deveopment integrated transportation networks for bikes, pedestrians, and transit as we as for autos We coordinate reviews with other oca agencies and utiities, and pubic participation is a vita part of our entire review process. Our deveopment review staff anayzes detaied project and site pans to ensure the compatibiity of a proposed project with the surrounding neighborhood. Post-approva, we inspect sites to enforce Panning Board conditions of approva. DEVELOPMENT AND DESIGN We create a quaity of pace by demanding high-quaity projects that carry out our goas, such as: environmenta protection affordabe housing density near transit pubic amenities and open space We work to ensure conformance with our master pans and compatibiity with the surrounding neighborhood. Sustainabiity We review: Project pans Preiminary pans Site pans Specia exceptions Loca map amendments Connectivity

12 THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY PLANNING DEPARTMENT THE MARYLAND-NATIONAL CAPITAL PARK AND PLANNING COMMISSION 8787 Georgia Avenue Siver Spring, Maryand Quaity of Pace THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY PLANNING DEPARTMENT