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Montgomery for All Meet-and-Greet with Planning Board Member Josh Linden

Join Montgomery for All for a meet-and-greet with Planning Board member Josh Linden! We’ll meet at Silver Branch Brewery next to the Silver Spring Metro.

Smart Growth Social 2023!

Calling all urbanists! Smart Growth Social is back and better than ever! This year, we're partnering with Transportation for America to bring you a night of networking, community, and celebration of smart growth. Join us for this opportunity to hear from special guest speaker David Zipper, one of the most influential people in transportation and urban policy today. Don't miss out — tickets will sell out fast so get yours today!

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Montgomery County: White Flint Sector Plan

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We would like to express our support for the White Flint Sector Plan and urge the Council and County Executive to support it too. We strongly support the County focusing growth here at a Metro station rather than new areas that require major new public infrastructure investments like the Gaithersburg West Plan, which we oppose in its current form. We need to make the distinction – we should focus growth around our Metro stations and revitalize major commercial corridors like Rockville Pike. Conversely, the great amount of development proposed in the Gaithersburg West Plan fosters sprawl, long distance commuting, increased traffic, air and water pollution. Overzoning Gaithersburg West undermines the redevelopment of Rockville Pike and Metro station areas – the very areas where we should be encouraging sustainable, transit-oriented development and great urban boulevards and streets.
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Ward 3 Vision Sustainability Working Paper

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The DC Office of Planning is leading a Ward 3 Neighborhood Sustainability Indicators Pilot Project (the Sustainability Project). We joined with Ward 3 Vision to put together a working paper on sustainability.
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Montgomery County: Gaithersburg West

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We urge you to oppose the Gaithersburg West Plan. We believe that the major expansion in planned employment proposed in the Plan is detrimental to county residents and poses a serious threat to smart growth in the region. We urge the county to refocus efforts to ensure a quality growth plan for the White Flint Metro station area, and fostering employment growth at existing underutilized Metro stations and along transit corridors in down and east county locations. The Life Sciences Center (LSC) portions of the Gaithersburg West Plan proposes excessive density for the location–far from a Metro station, which will exacerbate the housing-jobs imbalance, and induce sprawl and unnecessary car traffic.
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Getting On Track: Record Transit Ridership Increases Energy Independence

Getting On Track: Record Transit Ridership Increases Energy Independence

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This report details the dramatic growth of public transportation in 2008, and the corresponding energy and environmental benefits. These details are viewed in light of fewer miles driven in most states last year. It also documents transit growth across the country continuing into this year, highlights future potential benefits and outlines ways to improve the state of public transportation.
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D.C. - Presentation on Implementing Inclusionary Zoning

D.C. – Presentation on Implementing Inclusionary Zoning

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This is a presentation to the Council of Non-Profit Housing and Economic Development.
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