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Gwen WrightMontgomery County Planning Director
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Vibrant gathering places and open spaces in every neighborhood.
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County roads as safe, walkable, beautiful boulevards.
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Eve ryth i ng you need within a 15-minute walk from home.
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Housing as a right with more affordable,
attainable housing options.
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What is Thrive Montgomery 2050?• Update to the General Plan, last comprehensively updated in 1969.
• Long-range vision for the future of growth in the county.
• Thrive Montgomery 2050 plan will help guide: • Countywide policies• Future initiatives• Land use planning infrastructure• Community amenities• Private development MONTGOMERY 2050
Let's Plan Our Future. Together.
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Increase Affordable
Housing
Protect Farmland
Guide Timely Infrastructure
MPDU Law
TDRs
APFO
1969 General Plan and its Implementation
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A GENERAL PLAN* MONTGOMERY AND PRINCE GEORGFS COUNTIES
DECEMBER, 1969
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Why now?• Continuing evolution into a diverse
employment center
• Projected growth of 200,000 new residents in the next 30 years
• Changing technologies and cultural shifts
• Need to embrace urbanism
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Change in County DemographicsMap 6. Predominant Racial or Ethnic Group, 1990 by Census Tract Montgomery County, Maryland
Predominant Racial or Ethnic Group
1111 White Predominant (> 70% of tract population)
1111 White Majority (50% - 70%)
1111 Black Majority (50% - 70%)
1111 No predominant group (no group with more than 50%)
Roads and Transitways
-- Major Highways
-+-+ MARC Line
-- Metro Line
[i'i] Metro Stations
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Source : 1990 Census, U.S. Census Bureau . Created by: M-NCPPC , Research and Special Projects Division
Map 7. Predominant Racial or Ethnic Group, 2016 by Census Tract Montgomery County, Maryland
Predominant Racial or Ethnic Group
1111 White Predominant (>70% of tract population)
1111 White Majority (50% - 70%)
1111 Black Predominant (> 70%)
1111 Black Majority (50% - 70%)
1111 Hispanic Majority (50% - 70%)
1111 No predominant group (no group with more than 50%)
Roads and Transitways
-- Major Highways
-+-+ MARC Line
-- Metro Line
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A 4 --==---Mile s 0 2
[i'i] Metro Stations Source : 2012-2016 American Community Survey 5-year estimate, U.S. Census Bureau . Created by: M-NCPPC , Research and Special Projects Division
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Increasingly Older Population
Percentage of Population by Age Group
27%
8%
<5 5-19 20-34 35-44 45-64 65+
Age group
Figure 6 ■ 1990 ■ 2016 ■ 2040
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More people are working at homePercentage of resident workers who work at home
3.8% 3.5%
1.4%
2.9%2.4%
2.9%3.8%
2.7%
6.2%
7.1%
3.3%
5.8% 6.0%6.7%
8.2%
5.7%
0.0%
1.0%
2.0%
3.0%
4.0%
5.0%
6.0%
7.0%
8.0%
9.0%
MontgomeryCounty
FrederickCounty
PrinceGeorge'sCounty
HowardCounty
District ofColumbia
FairfaxCounty
LoudounCounty
ArlingtonCounty
1990 2016
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What have we heard so far?
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What have we heard so far?"Would like us to hove mixed . income communities) so that we hove mixed-income schools."
- Germantown Splash Park
"Please relieve the congestion along 270 - widen lanes or extend the metro. Something!''
- Taste of Bethesda
Stop building so many houses in the Ag Reserve"
- Poolesville Day
"Running trails) wolkobility) anything to attract independent businesses.''
-Wheaton Sunday Funday
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Current Land Use
Single Family 34.9%
Agriculture 23 2"
Vacant/Under Construction 7 .2%
Institutional/ Community Facility 4.4%
Parks 19.2%
MultiFamily 1.9%
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Qualifiers§Multiple owners§Improvement Value >2 Land Value§Office Buildings less than 50 years old§Retail Buildings less than 15 years old
Environmental constraintsHydrological
StreamsWetland Buffers
Erodible soilsParks & Biodiversity areasAgricultural ReservesSpecial Protection AreasForest Conservation Easements
Man-made constraintsUtility Sites
WSSCTransmission Lines
Transportation InfrastructureMetroRail State RoadsFederal Highways
Government OwnershipRustic Roads & Public Education Historic PreservationTDR ExhaustedRockville QuarryRegulated Affordable Housing,Private InstitutionalHOA Common OwnershipSingle Family Dwellings
Constrained area = 276,515 Acres (85%)Unconstrained area = 47,804 Acres (15%)
County is mostly built out(future is infill and redevelopment)
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Montgomery County Building Permits
1-unit 2-units 3-4 units 5+ units Population
Housing Growth Not Meeting Needs of Growing Population
Average since 1980: 4,300Average since 2010: 2,700
Source: 1960-2010 US Census, 2016 American Community Survey, 1-year estimate, Census Bureau Building Permits
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Framework
ECONOMIC HEALTH
+ COMMUNIITY
IEQUl'TY
+ ENVIRONMENTAL
RESILIENCE
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MONTGOMIERY 2050 Let's Plan Our Future. Together.
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Vision
• Complete communities: Individual and unique centers of neighborhood activity and urban nodes optimize land use with a variety of housing types and price points are located close to transit, workplaces, needed goods and services, public amenities and active park spaces.
• Vibrant corridors: comfortable, safe corridors of multimodal transportation and services; and corridors of green parks, stream valleys and trails.
In 2050, Montgomery County is a web of complete communities connected by vibrant corridors.
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Categories of Goals
ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENTAL HEALT1H RESILIENCE
~ _..... COMM 'UNITY
EQUITY
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Big Shifts• Urbanism – corridors are the
future
• 15-minute living
• Active lifestyles = health
• Social – connections of people and places
• Housing is a right and a value
• Major roads transformed into boulevards
• Stop planning for cars
• De-pave the county
• Varieties of commercial uses
• Regional solutions to problems
• Diversity is our strength
• Embrace importance of place
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Corridors
Rockville Pike in Montgomery County
14th St. in DC
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Parking Lots to Places
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Regional Solutions
Tysons Activity Centers Potential
Purple Line Extension
I-270/I-495 Running Transit
North BethesdaTransitway Extension
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Embrace importance of place-
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Project TimelineIssues Report
Draft Vision and Goals
Working Draft Plan
Draft Policies and Actions
Council Review + ApprovalApril 2021 - TBD
Planning Board Review + TransmittalOctober 2020 – March 2021
September 2020
Will be presented to the Planning Board on June 11th
Presented to the Planning Board on April 16th
Presented to the Planning Board on February 27th
We are here
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