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Planning Initiatives: Smart Growth

The document outlines Montgomery County, Maryland's smart growth planning initiatives which include focusing development around agricultural and rural open spaces, corridor cities along major transportation routes, metro station areas, neighborhoods and centers, commercial centers, avenues and boulevards, and public spaces. It discusses the vision, characteristics, and actions involved in each of these planning areas to guide future development in a sustainable manner.

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Planning Initiatives: Smart Growth

The document outlines Montgomery County, Maryland's smart growth planning initiatives which include focusing development around agricultural and rural open spaces, corridor cities along major transportation routes, metro station areas, neighborhoods and centers, commercial centers, avenues and boulevards, and public spaces. It discusses the vision, characteristics, and actions involved in each of these planning areas to guide future development in a sustainable manner.

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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

8
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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