Rollin Stanley, Montgomery County’s star planning director, favors channeling growth to walkable downtowns, encouraging mixed-use development with significant density and even using congestion to force people onto transit. Furthermore, he…
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Montgomery County Planning Director Rollin Stanley is starting to hit a wall. That’s a problem – not only for him, but also for the county that depends on him.Rollin Stanley…
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Governor Martin O’Malley has just issued an Executive Order directing state agencies to consider proximity to transit stations as a criterion in planning their office space. In Maryland, land-use planning…
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County Executive Comments on Growth Policy
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Jim Humphrey, Chair of the Montgomery County Civic Federation’s Land Use Committee, wrote this column in reference to the County Executive’s comments on the new growth policy.“Federation Corner” columnThe Montgomery…
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Slow Growth Leader Calls Out Leggett
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Jim Humphrey, the Chair of the Montgomery County Civic Federation’s Land Use Committee and the intellectual leader of the county’s slow growth movement, wrote the following Sentinel column last week….
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Is This Smart Growth? Part Five
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The Planning Department staff’s new recommended growth policy encourages development away from transit and throws in the towel on congestion mitigation. Here are some ideas for doing this better.1. Restructure…
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Is This Smart Growth? Part Four
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In Part Two of this series, we detailed how the Planning Department staff recommendation for a new growth policy relaxed standards on mitigating traffic congestion. In Part Three, we explained…
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Is This Smart Growth? Part Three
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Smart growth holds that development should be directed to areas with abundant transit access. The Planning Department staff proposal for a new growth policy pursues that goal through a variety…
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Is This Smart Growth? Part Two
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In 2007, the Planning Department devised a new system for measuring a project’s impact on transportation capacity: Project Area Mobility Review (PAMR). The system relied on a trade-off between road…
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Is This Smart Growth? Part One
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The new Adequate Public Facility Ordinance (APFO) proposed by the Planning Department staff would provide new incentives for development around transit stations. That’s smart growth by anyone’s definition. But the…