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Agenda Packets: Demographics and Community Design

This document provides an agenda and overview for a series of community discussions on creating thriving and sustainable communities in Montgomery County, Maryland. The discussions will be held over three evenings in May, June, and September and will focus on demographics and community design, growth and planning, and implementation strategies. The goal is to engage over 100 civic and business leaders to provide input on managing future growth, guiding planning policies, and identifying community values. The agenda outlines the topics, speakers, and format for each discussion evening, with an emphasis on exploring challenges and opportunities around demographic trends, community needs, development patterns, and growth management.

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Agenda Packets: Demographics and Community Design

This document provides an agenda and overview for a series of community discussions on creating thriving and sustainable communities in Montgomery County, Maryland. The discussions will be held over three evenings in May, June, and September and will focus on demographics and community design, growth and planning, and implementation strategies. The goal is to engage over 100 civic and business leaders to provide input on managing future growth, guiding planning policies, and identifying community values. The agenda outlines the topics, speakers, and format for each discussion evening, with an emphasis on exploring challenges and opportunities around demographic trends, community needs, development patterns, and growth management.

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AGENDA PACKETS

Demographics and Community Design

Wednesday, May 3, 6:30 p.m. to 10 p.m.


The Johns Hopkins University
Shady Grove Campus, Building III
9601 Medical Center Drive
Rockville, Maryland

Growth and Planning

Wednesday, May 17, 6:30 p.m. to 10 p.m.


The Johns Hopkins University
Shady Grove Campus, Building III
9601 Medical Center Drive
Rockville, Maryland

Implementation Strategies and Tools

Wednesday, September 27, 4:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.


(Lite dinner provided)
Brookside Gardens Visitors Center
1800 Glenallan Avenue
Wheaton, Maryland

Appendix: Challenge Questions to Ponder


CREATING THRIVING AND SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES

PROGRAM OVERVIEW

The Montgomery County Planning Department, the Coalition for Smarter Growth,
and the Urban Land Institute will join with more than 100 civic and business
leaders from Montgomery County in a community-based discussion to explore
how we can continue to create thriving and sustainable communities.

The community discussion will continue throughout the summer on a web-based


Message Board. In September, the group will reconvene to focus on two
important questions: Where do we put new growth? What implementation tools
and strategies are needed to sustain livability in existing communities and
prevent the decline of our older communities?

GOALS
Explore the challenges and opportunities associated with the expected changes
to Montgomery County.

Provide community perspectives and guidance to the Planning Board and the
County Council regarding how we can create strong communities and inspiring
places to live and work in the future.

Create an inventory of community values, preferences and aspirations to help


guide future planning.

OBJECTIVE
To engage more than 100 civic and business leaders 1 to reflect on the following
questions:

What are your ideas for creating the quality communities envisioned in our
plans? What makes change acceptable and unacceptable? How do we make
choices about future growth? What planning policies and approaches must be
reshaped to meet the challenge of future change?

INVITEE SURVEY
Before the first community-based discussion is convened, a survey will be sent to
all invitees to help identify their values and aspirations regarding community
livability in the future. The results will be explored throughout the sessions.

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The sessions will be advertised and open to the public.

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AGENDA
MAY 3, 2006

LOCATION
The Johns Hopkins University, Shady Grove Campus
9601 Medical Center Drive, Building III
6:30pm-10:00pm

COMMUNITY DISCUSSION 1

PLANNING FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES THAT MEET CHANGING


COMMUNITY NEEDS

The first Community Discussion will explore the physical impacts of demographic
trends, changing community needs, evolving lifestyle preferences, and the
opportunities they represent. The challenges, choices, and trade-offs associated
with accommodating change in our communities through design will be
examined.

Ralph Bennett, Session Moderator and President, Bennett, Frank, McCarthy


Architects, Takoma Park. Ralph Bennett first moved to the County in 1946 and
has lived here continuously since 1977.

6:30-6:45 OPENING REMARKS

Derick Berlage, Chair, Montgomery County Planning Board

The purpose and intent of the Discussion Series. The planning efforts
needed to achieve the communities that we envision for Montgomery
County as it continues to grow and change.

Faroll Hamer, Acting Director, Planning Department

Reaffirming the goals of the General Plan, while navigating amid emerging
trends and changing community needs. Implementing the intent of the
General Plan through a transparent master plan program and growth
management strategies. Refocusing our planning emphasis from
managing the outward expansion of development to smaller area planning
and redevelopment.

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6:45- 7:20

Session 1: Past and future, a planning perspective.


Len Bogorad, Managing Director, Charles Lesser & Company
Karl Moritz, Chief, Research and Technology Center, Park & Planning

Len Bogorad, nationally recognized market analyst and Karl Moritz,


Montgomery County’s leading demographer will summarize how
demographic trends and lifestyle preferences suggest future directions in
planning, land use policy, and community design. Karl will also present the
results of the invitee survey.

Q&A

7:20- 7:40

Session 2: Community design opportunities and future change.


Ralph Bennett, President, Bennett, Frank, McCarthy Architects

Design opportunities presented by future change will be explored.


Montgomery County offers opportunities for improvement in planning and
design, as it grows and changes. Ralph Bennett will illustrate four
contemporary best practices in planning and show how the County can
meet its potential for making quality neighborhoods and communities.

7:40-7:50 BREAK

7:50- 9:30

Session 3: Neighborhood development patterns.


Mike Watkins, Duany, Plater-Zyberk & Co, Director, KentlandsTown
Planning
John Carter, Chief, Community-Based Planning Division

Mike Watkins, internationally acclaimed neo-traditional architect and town


planner and Montgomery County resident will examine the spectrum of
development patterns that define communities and community life. Among
the implementation tools, Mike will share his transect-based Smart Code.

Mike will explore how existing communities crystallize into new ones and
use increasingly scarce land more efficiently to provide better
environments for community life. He will outline how development can be
an asset to the community by examining alternative neighborhood
patterns and their attributes, such as, connectivity via street, pedestrian,
and bus networks, variety of housing types, mixed-use centers, public
spaces, and quality design. The role of community participation in re-

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organizing suburban development into memorable, convenient, more
accessible places in the future will be examined.

What works and what doesn’t, as older neighborhoods crystallize into new
ones? John Carter, long-term Chief of the Community-Based Planning
Division and the Department’s repository of planning knowledge, will join
Mike to explore application of transect-based planning here in
Montgomery County.

What does it take to achieve the quality communities envisioned in County


plans and highlighted in the invitee survey? John will highlight some
policy, planning, regulation and community participation efforts. The need
for public facilities and amenities to accompany community change will
also be explored.

Audience discussion and feedback.


What makes change acceptable? Mike and John will engage the audience
in discussion about their perceptions of community change and
redevelopment. The results of the invitee survey will help guide the
discussion.

Concluding Observations: Ralph Bennett

9:30-10:00

Meet the panelists. Mingle with the local leaders. Discuss the issues.

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AGENDA
MAY 17, 2006
LOCATION
The Johns Hopkins University, Shady Grove Campus
9601 Medical Center Drive, Building III
6:30pm-10:00pm

COMMUNITY DISCUSSION 2

KEY ELEMENTS OF PLANNING POLICY IN THE 21ST CENTURY

The second Community Discussion will provide an opportunity to explore


challenges and choices associated with future growth, change, and community
needs. What choices can we reasonably make regarding future growth? How will
we accommodate, plan, and manage future growth? What has to happen to more
fully engage the community in guiding future planning?

Participants will have an opportunity to examine how emerging demographics,


changing community needs, and the economic reality of the private market are
being successfully integrated into community planning and project development
in Montgomery County and throughout the country.

Dr. Arthur C. Nelson, FAICP, Moderator, Professor and Director of the Urban
Affairs and Planning Program and Associate Director for the New Metropolis at
Virginia Tech’s Metropolitan Institute.

The Moderator will seek advice and answers from national experts, local leaders,
and the audience regarding the challenges associated with growth and change.

6:30-6:40 OPENING REMARKS

Derick Berlage, Chair, Montgomery County Planning Board

Exploring the choices Montgomery County has in accommodating


sustainable future growth given the realities of the 21st century.
Summarizing the outcome of the first session. Reflecting on the results
from the invitee survey.

Faroll Hamer, Acting Director, Planning Department

Outlining the policy, planning and regulatory framework essential to


meeting community needs in the future. Guiding 21st Century
development potential through a focused pattern of sustainable growth
and reshaped growth management strategies.

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6:40-7:25

Session 1: Policy and planning framework.


Karl Moritz, Chief, Research and Technology Center, Park &Planning
John Carter, Chief, Community-Based Planning Division, Park & Planning

Karl will review current growth forecasts including assumptions associated


with where and how the region and County will see growth according to
current master plans and forecasts. The planning, policy, and regulatory
framework guiding the amount, type, location, and pace of development
and the provision of public facilities, amenities, and infrastructure will be
summarized.

John will explore planning at a variety of scales here in Montgomery


County as a way to achieve the quality communities envisioned in County
plans and highlighted in the invitee survey.

Montgomery County 2040, A View from the Outside


Chris Nelson will present a fresh perspective about Montgomery County’s
growth patterns and development potentials.

Q&A

7:25-8:40

Session 2: Responding to change, a panel discussion about future


growth and development.

Three national experts will respond to specific questions about the future
planning of Montgomery County. They will examine how other jurisdictions
are responding to change and working to create thriving and sustainable
communities. Each expert will be given 10-15 minutes to present.

National Experts
Tony Downs, Senior Fellow, Metropolitan Policy, Brookings Institution.
How are we going to provide a full range of housing opportunity as the
cost of housing escalates and the number of jobs outpaces the number of
housing units?

Thomas Lavash, Vice- President, Economic Research Associates.


How will growth, emerging economic pressures and market forces
influence community design, residential development and lifestyle
preferences in the future?

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Reid Ewing, Research Professor, National Center for Smart Growth,
University of Maryland, College Park.
How should the public’s interest in sustainable quality community design,
connectivity, and best mix of land uses be pursued? What role will the
provision of public facilities and services play in creating livable
communities in the future?

Local Leaders
Six local leaders will present their “point-of view” regarding future growth,
development, and change. They will then pose questions to the national
experts in a robust 30-minute dialogue.

Dan Wilhelm, President, Montgomery County Civic Federation


Bryant Foulger, Principal and Vice-President, Foulger Pratt Companies
Frankie Blackburn, Executive Director, Impact Silver Spring
Pamela Lindstrom, Civic Activist and Smart Growth Advocate
Richard Parsons, President, Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce
Paul Mahon, Executive Vice-President, Strategic Planning, United
Therapeutics Corporation.

8:40- 9:15

Audience reaction and response. The audience will be invited to pepper


the panelists with questions and engage in discussion.

9:15-9-30

Concluding observations: Roger Lewis, Architect, Planner, Educator,


Washington Post Columnist.

9:30-10:00
Meet the panelists. Discuss the issues. Exchange ideas.

Complete and return the Audience Questionnaire and Evaluation Form to


the Registration Table or mail by May 22 to: Department of Park and
Planning, Strategic Planning Division, 8787 Georgia Avenue, Silver Spring,
MD 20910.

Visit the Park and Planning website after June 1 to read the Session
Summaries at mc-mncppc.org.

Share your ideas about future planning on the Centers and Boulevards
Blog after June 1 at mc-mncppc.org/strategic_planning/centers/index.shtm.

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