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Webinar: Affordable Housing Financing 101 (Montgomery County)

Join the Coalition for Smarter Growth and Montgomery for All for a virtual learning session about the basics of affordable housing financing! 

Livable Communities Leadership Award & Blueprint Premiere

This spring, we'll awarding Metro's General Manager, Randy Clarke, with our 2024 Livable Communities Leadership Award! But wait, there's more! We'll also be premiering our Blueprint for a Better Region. Don't miss this exciting event! You'll want to be there for the unveiling of the first piece: a video designed to inspire.

Latest Happenings


Tips for testifying in support of an inclusive neighborhood

Tips for testifying in support of an inclusive neighborhood

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This is your guide to testifying virtually at the DC Zoning Commission for: Case No. 23-02: Chevy Chase Neighborhood Mixed Use Zones on April 29, 2024 at 4pm How to sign up to testify: In order to testify at the hearing, you MUST sign up to testify at least 24

Comments: 2024 Master Plan of Highways and Transitways Update (Montgomery County)

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We believe it is appropriate to reclassify unbuilt segments of M-83 as “no longer a master planned road” in this update of the Master Plan of Highways and Transitways.

TPB Board Comment, April 2024 Meeting

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Today you will be briefed on the Visualize 2050 public comments received last month. The feedback form results show overwhelming disappointment with the Visualize 2050 process, its many road widening projects, and voice support for a plan that instead strives to achieve our climate and other goals for walkable, transit-friendly affordable communities.
PRESS STATEMENT: Restore Virginia Metro Funding!

PRESS STATEMENT: Restore Virginia Metro Funding!

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The groups signing onto this press statement urge the General Assembly to reject Governor Youngkin’s budget amendment and restore the funding the General Assembly agreed to.

Testimony: FY25 Operating Budget (Montgomery County, Support with Amendments)

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We are glad to see record levels of funding for affordable housing production and preservation in this year’s capital and operating budgets, and thank the Council and County Executive for consistently increasing funding for affordable housing year over year.