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    This document discusses assessing transit-oriented development (TOD) in Montgomery County, Maryland. It notes that sprawl leads to problems like congestion, pollution, and high infrastructure costs, and that TOD is a solution that can reduce these issues through compact, walkable development near transit. However, not all dense development is necessarily oriented towards transit. It then provides details on the ITDP's TOD standards and scoring system, and provides an unofficial analysis of Rockville Town Square in Montgomery County based on these standards.

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    This document discusses assessing transit-oriented development (TOD) in Montgomery County, Maryland. It notes that sprawl leads to problems like congestion, pollution, and high infrastructure costs, and that TOD is a solution that can reduce these issues through compact, walkable development near transit. However, not all dense development is necessarily oriented towards transit. It then provides details on the ITDP's TOD standards and scoring system, and provides an unofficial analysis of Rockville Town Square in Montgomery County based on these standards.

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    Assessing Tod in Montgomery County:: Towards More Growth and Less Congestion

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    ASSESSINGTODIN

    MONTGOMERYCOUNTY:
    TOWARDSMORE
    GROWTHANDLESS
    CONGESTION
    JACOB MASON
    May 9, 2014

    PROBLEM:
    Sprawl
    Congestion
    Pollution
    SocialIsolation
    Noise
    LackofMobility
    CostofInfrastruc
    Injury/death
    etc

    SOLUTION:
    TransitOriented
    Development
    Reduced Pollutio
    Increased Social
    Connections
    Noise
    Lack of Mobility
    Reduced Cost of
    Infrastructure

    BUT,
    Density is not
    always oriented
    to transit!

    Metro
    Station

    Density

    Download:
    https://go.itdp.org/display
    /live/TOD+Standard
    Latestversionreleasedin2014
    Developedbyexpertsinthefieldof
    UrbanPlanningandTransportation:
    B.R.Balachandran,AlchemyUrbanSystems
    PrivateLimited
    RobertCevero,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley
    BettyDeakin,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley
    MichaelKing,Nelson\ Nygaard Consulting
    Shomik Mehndiratta,WorldBank
    LucNadal,InstituteforTransportationand
    DevelopmentPolicy
    PeterPark,UniversityofColorado,Denver
    HiroakiSuzuki,WorldBank

    8 Principles

    Scoring

    Scoring

    Rankings

    Rockville Town Square


    (Unofficial Analysis)

    Rockville Town Square

    Rockville Town Square

    Rockville Town Square

    Rockville Town Square

    Best Practice

    Rockville Town Square

    SOMEEXTRA
    PEDESTRIAN
    CONNECTIVITY

    LONGBLOCKS

    Best Practice
    LOTSOFEXTRA
    PEDESTRIAN
    CONNECTIVITY

    SMALLBLOCKS

    Rockville Town Square

    Rockville Town Square


    HOUSING
    OFFICE

    RETAIL

    Rockville Town Square


    LOWDESNITY,
    TYPICALOFAREA

    HIGHER
    DENSITY
    PROJECT

    Rockville Town Square


    BUS
    ROUTES

    DEVELOPMENT

    DEVELOPMENT

    DEVELOPMENT

    DEVELOPMENT

    Rockville Town Square

    PARKINGGARAGE
    SURFACELOT
    UNDERGOUNDGARAGE

    Best Practice

    THANKYOU!

    jacob.mason@itdp.org

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