We are so honored our master plans won 2 Planning Awards from the Maryland Chapter of the American Planning Association last night! The Great Seneca Plan won the Planning Award for Community Engagement/Education for the plan team's work that creatively and comprehensively involved stakeholders, particularly underrepresented groups, in the master planning process. The Fairland and Briggs Chaney Master Plan won the Planning Award for Long Range Planning. The award recognizes planning that advances sustainable development, resilience, or equity and exemplifies complex analysis, broad stakeholder engagement, and creative and leading-edge strategic thought. These two awards add to the two APA National Capital Area Chapter awards we won on Oct. 11 for the Pedestrian Master Plan (Planning Excellence Award in Transportation) and the Mapping Segregation Project (Planning Excellence Award in Advancing Diversity and Social Equity). We are so proud of our planners and the communities they worked with for years to develop these outstanding and forward-thinking master plans that will help Montgomery County continue to be a great place to live, work, and visit for decades to come. Read our news release: https://bit.ly/3NBneuD
Montgomery County Planning Department
Architecture and Planning
Wheaton, Maryland 1,137 followers
Transforming Tomorrow Together.
About us
Montgomery Planning examines the past and present to plan for the brightest possible future for Montgomery County and its residents. Our research and expertise are informed by the needs and realities of the public to plan, design and enhance the best use of the county’s land and related resources. Montgomery Planning’s recommendations ensure that communities are designed and equipped to keep pace with the way we live, work and play now and decades from now. WHAT WE DO In brief, Montgomery Planning develops plans and sets policies to ensure that we have what we need as Montgomery County grows while preserving what’s good about what’s already in place. We do that through: • Cutting-edge research • Development of visionary plans • Reviewing development applications • Land use and zoning regulations • Historic preservation • Services for homeowners and landowners OUR STRUCTURE While Montgomery Planning is responsible for developing plans in Montgomery County, we’re not part of Montgomery County government, and we’re independent of the County Executive and County Council. We are part of The Maryland-National Capital Parks and Planning Commission (M-NCPPC), a state agency. M-NCPPC is the organization behind the brown signs you see around the county, especially in parks (and Montgomery Planning plans for those parks!) This unique structure allows the Planning Department to make independent, non-partisan recommendations for the good of the community to the Montgomery County Planning Board, County Council and other elected officials. For more information, please visit our website!
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- Architecture and Planning
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- 51-200 employees
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- Wheaton, Maryland
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- 1927
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Wheaton, Maryland 20902, US
Employees at Montgomery County Planning Department
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We're #hiring! There are openings for a Planning Associate and a Transportation Planning Supervisor. Head to our employments page to apply! https://lnkd.in/ei6dabJ
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This Thursday is the Planning Board’s final 2024 Speaker Series panel. Learn about implementation successes/challenges from developers that have used relaxed zoning to build different housing types. 🏘️ This is a free event. RSVPs are encouraged 🙂 https://lnkd.in/eJfKVCWZ
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The American Planning Association's National Capital Area Chapter annual conference was a blast! We were honored with two awards from the chapter! Our Mapping Segregation Project won the Planning Excellence Award in Advancing Diversity and Social Equity. Our Pedestrian Master Plan won the Planning Excellence Award in Transportation. Mapping Segregation Project: https://bit.ly/3XXpHnU Pedestrian Master Plan: https://bit.ly/3W5Nvok And it was fun to join our DMV planning partners and friends on a panel discussion about the role of the federal-local relationship on decision-making and development. Plus, our planners led a conference breakout session about our Great Seneca Plan's vision to help support the county's growing life sciences industry workforce. Great Seneca Plan: https://bit.ly/3QYOovV
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We're #hiring! There are openings for a Planning Associate and a Transportation Planning Supervisor. Head to our employments page to apply! https://lnkd.in/ei6dabJ
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Today's Planning Board meeting starts at 2 p.m. Full agenda: https://bit.ly/4dLBQlz Watch the meeting live or on-demand on the Planning Board's website: https://bit.ly/2WWH3p8
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Montgomery County's middle-income pop. has shrunk. Our data team explains the economic impact and how housing is part of the solution. Our three-part Third Place blog series, “Repositioning Montgomery County for Prosperity” takes a closer look: https://bit.ly/49P7EoC
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Oct 17: Hear from developers and industry experts that have used relaxed zoning to build Missing Middle housing. Co-sponsored with the UMD National Center for Smart Growth, the Planning Board’s third and final 2024 Speaker Series panel is in-person from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. in the Second Floor Auditorium at our Wheaton HQ (2425 Reedie Drive, Wheaton). This is a free event. Panel: Bob Young, Principal, Young Group Rosie Hepner, Vice President, ULI Terwilliger Center for Housing Tony Perez, Senior Associate, Opticos Design, Inc. RSVP: https://lnkd.in/eQGizn5f More event information: https://lnkd.in/eJfKVCWZ
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Our team working on a plan to better implement the key recommendations of the 2017 Bethesda Downtown Plan briefed the Planning Board Sept. 19 on our progress. https://lnkd.in/dYbe_-ZB Stay updated on the Bethesda Downtown Plan Minor Master Plan Amendment: https://bit.ly/3Bj1OiU
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SO much going on in October -- another Planning Board Speaker Series panel, meetings about our master plans for Univ. Blvd and eastern Silver Spring, and then a celebration of what possible at our #placemaking festival in Damascus! #planning #masterplan Full schedule: https://bit.ly/3XOkKO2