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Thrive Montgomery 2050 Community Chats ThriveMontgomery.com 1 How to Participate - Zoom This meeting will be recorded and shared on the website Everyone will be muted throughout the meeting If you have a comment or question, raise

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  • This meeting will be recorded and shared on the website
  • Everyone will be muted throughout the meeting
  • If you have a comment or question, raise your hand or type it in the

chat

  • Unmute yourself, if you are called on

Mute/unmute

Open participant panel, raise hand

Open meeting chat

How to Participate - Zoom

Stop/start your video camera

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  • 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

What is Thrive Montgomery 2050?

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In 2050, Montgomery County is a vibrant and welcoming place where all people thrive with equitable access to:

  • Attainable housing;
  • Healthy food;
  • Opportunities for physical activity, parks and open space;
  • Employment;
  • Education;
  • Services;
  • And a variety of travel options.

Vision

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Vision

  • Complete communities: Individual and unique centers
  • f 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

  • f 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

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Initial Questions

  • What are some of your favorite things about your neighborhood?
  • What would you be excited to see in your neighborhood that isn’t currently

there?

  • What is preventing you from meeting your daily needs within a 15-minute

walk or bike ride?

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Complete Communities

  • Provide opportunities to live,

work, shop, learn and play

  • Include a mixture of uses,

housing types, amenities and services accessible by foot, bike

  • r transit
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Complete Communities – Initial Poll

  • Do you live in an urban, suburban or rural part of the county?
  • Do you currently live in a community where you can live, work,

shop, learn and play by walking, biking or using transit?

  • Do you have convenient social gathering places accessible to you

by walking or biking?

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Retrofit existing communities and create new communities where people can meet their daily needs without a car.

Complete Communities Goal

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  • Policy 1.1: Live, work, play, exercise, shop, learn and enjoy public

amenities and services within a 15-minute walk or bike ride.

  • Policy 1.2: Prioritize walking and bicycling.
  • Policy 1.3: Allow various types and densities of housing.
  • Policy 1.4: Conveniently locate public services and amenities

accessible by walking and bicycling from home.

Policies

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Orient communities around convenient social gathering places accessible to neighborhood residents by walking and biking.

Complete Communities Goal

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  • Policy 1.2.1: Locate and design public

buildings and parks as places where social gathering is encouraged.

  • Policy 1.2.2: Preserve and support

existing gathering places that enhance neighborhoods and reflect local culture.

Policies

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Promote active lifestyles by making parks and open spaces a central element of the community.

Complete Communities Goal

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  • Policy 1.3.1: Ensure access to parks or public spaces within a 15-

minute walk from home.

Policy

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Equitably distribute the benefits of land use planning and investment throughout the county.

Complete Communities Goal

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  • Policy 1.4.1: Eliminate disproportionate adverse impacts

affecting communities and avoid creating new adverse impacts from future land use policies and capital investments.

Policy

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Complete Communities – Poll Results

  • Do you live in an urban, suburban or rural part of the county?
  • Do you currently live in a community where you can live, work,

shop, learn and play by walking, biking or using transit?

  • Do you have convenient social gathering places accessible to you

by walking or biking?

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Discussion

What are some of your favorite things about your neighborhood? What would you be excited to see in your neighborhood that isn’t currently there? What is preventing you from meeting your daily needs within a 15-minute walk or bike ride?

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Discussion

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Project Timeline

Issues Report Draft Vision and Goals Working Draft Plan Draft Policies and Actions Council Review + Approval

April 2021 - TBD

Planning Board Review + Transmittal

October 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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Stay involved!

  • Sign-up for the Thrive Montgomery 2050 e-letter at

www.ThriveMontgomery.com

  • Send your comments to Thrive2050@montgomeryplanning.org
  • Connect with us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram
  • Participate in upcoming Community Chats – through June 30th
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Community Chat Schedule

June 23, 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Bilingual Healthy and Sustainable Environment June 24, All day. Twitter Town Hall. Housing June 24, 5 to 6 p.m. Pints with a Planner on Housing with Casey Anderson June 29, Noon to 1 p.m. Design, Arts and Culture June 30, 7 to 8 p.m. Diverse and Adaptable Growth