Zoning Montgomery

02/16/2011

The Zoning Advisory Panel meets tonight at 7p in the Planning Board Auditorium at 8787 Georgia Avenue in Silver Spring. It's open to the public. But if you can't make it, you can watch online here: http://tinyurl.com/4znet4s

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10/28/2010

Have you seen the first section of our new draft zoning code? It's on the web: http://tinyurl.com/37bpmxy

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09/17/2010

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07/30/2010

Find out when planners will be out of the office for a mandatory furlough.

SILVER SPRING, MD – The Montgomery County Planning Department will be closed August 2-6 on a furlough. The Park and Planning Headquarters building, which houses the Planning Department at 8787 Georgia Avenue in Silver Spring, will be closed, and no...

07/21/2010

The current use table lists 18 different types of office uses (i.e. "offices, business" "offices, insurance claims" "offices, professional" etc). We've suggested narrowing this down to three office types: "offices, business or professional" "offices, medical or dental" and "offices, research & development". What do you think? Is that too narrow? Too broad?

07/16/2010

There are a total of eleven zones in the zoning ordinance that are not mapped at all in the County. Is that really necessary?

07/12/2010

The current code includes 25 definitions of terms that are not found in the text of the code...

07/08/2010

Montgomery County has a total of 120 zones. To put this in a local context, Prince George's has 58 zones, DC has 49 zones and Arlington has 37 zones. Like this comment if you think its time to go on a Zone diet!

07/01/2010

Montgomery County's first zoning code, created in 1928, consisted of 15 pages. Can you guess how many pages the code has today?

05/11/2010

Join us this Thursday for our sixth installment of the ReThink Montgomery speaker series. Economist, attorney, entrepreneur and seven-time author Michael Shuman will outline the benefits of locally based, creative, entrepreneurial enterprises, as well as detail the role he sees for local governments to help create an environment that allows local businesses to thrive.

SILVER SPRING, MD – Money spent at locally owned businesses provides much more economic benefit for communities than money spent at corporate-owned businesses. Yet, local government policies do not always favor local businesses. On Thursday, May 13, economist, attorney, entrepreneur...

04/28/2010

the Zoning Code Rewrite Team hosted two open houses to update the public on the status of the project and gather feedback. The first was held Tuesday evening at M-NCPPC headquarters and the second was held midday Wednesday at the Rockville library. The two events attracted nearly 100 attendees who walked around several learning stations, asked questions of staff and filled out comment cards.

04/14/2010

Code Studio has released a second draft of the apporach and annotated outline for the new zoning code! View the document here:

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