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…
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The recent loss of Hilton Hotel’s headquarters to Fairfax and the resignation of Department of Economic Development (DED) Director Pradeep Ganguly have created significant debate about DED’s performance and mission….
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MPW’s far-flung spy network was quite excited this week over County Executive Ike Leggett’s appointment of former County Council Member Steve Silverman as the new Director of the Department of…
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Following is the press release from the Leggett administration.For Immediate Release: April 7, 2009 Leggett Names Steve Silverman to Direct Economic Development Department Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett today announced…
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Montgomery County Lands Clean Energy Center
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In a tart letter to County Executive Ike Leggett, County Council Members George Leventhal, Nancy Floreen, Valerie Ervin and Mike Knapp refer to a “leadership crisis” in the Department of…
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Hijacking of Planning Underway
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By Jim Humphrey, Chair, Montgomery County Civic Federation Planning and Land Use Committee. In 1973, under authority granted by the State of Maryland, Montgomery County enacted its Adequate Public Facilities…
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A Sorry Moment for the Slow Growth Movement
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Dear readers: those of you who read this blog know that nothing ticks us off more than double-talk. We can deal with differences in policy or ideology. Indeed, we have…
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Pay and Go, a proposal to lift some of Montgomery County’s infrastructure requirements from developers, produced one of the biggest conflicts over development policy this county has ever seen. It…