Twinbrook Sector Plan

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S T A F F D R A F T
Twinbrook Sector Plan
A New Community in the Technology Corridor
Montgomery County Department of Planning The
Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning
Commission
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Planning and Outreach Process

• Residents and businesses beyond the Plan area
• Coordination with City of Rockville
• Varied forums
• Informal advisory group

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Plan Area and Location

• Near Metro
• Buffered by tracks, cemetery,
• major roads
• Adjacent to City of Rockville

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Twinbrook Station

• Meets goals of 2000 charrette
• - Mixed uses
• - Pedestrian orientation
• - Access to Metro
• - Public open space
• Change agent

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City of Rockville Plans

• Rockville Pike Corridor Plan
• Twinbrook Neighborhood Plan
• Shared vision of a Metro station area
• - Pedestrian connections
• - Revitalizing industrial
• - Creating active mixed communities

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Plan Goals

• Create Twinbrook as a distinct
• place along the Metro Red
• Line
• Provide opportunities for
• housing
• Reduce the impact of
• development on the natural
• environment
• Create a connected road
• network
• Provide an improved system
• of pedestrian and bicycle
• connections
• Encourage high quality design
• features
• Establish a development
• envelope balanced with
• infrastructure capacity

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Sector Plan Districts
Metro Core Area
Technology Employment Area
Light Industrial Area
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Metro Core Area

• Whats there now
• Metro Station and parking lot
• JBGs Twinbrook Station project
• Remaining county sites

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Metro Core Area

• Why and how it should change
• Near Metro and Twinbrook
• Station project
• Continue the pattern and
• character established by
• Twinbrook Station
• - Housing
• - Mixed use
• - Retail
• - Main street pattern
• - Pedestrian connections
• Achieve through
• TOMX-2/TDR and TOMX-2 Zones
• Redevelop with amenities and connections

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Metro Core and Technology Employment Area
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Technology Employment Area

• Whats there now
• Emerging technology center
• Large parking lots
• Parklawn Building
• Small but not walkable
• Near Metro and Rock Creek Park

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Technology Employment Area

• Why and how it should change
• Build on technology uses
• Main street pattern
• Parklawn Building renovation
• Achieve through
• TOMX-2 and TOMX-1/TDR
• Redevelop with amenities and connections

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Light Industrial Area

• Whats there now
• Mixed lot sizes
• Mixed commercial uses
• Isolated but convenient

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Light Industrial Area

• Why and how it should change
• Boundary focuses redevelopment
• to the Parklawn streetfront
• Small sites have industrial value,
• but limited capacity
• Achieve through
• I-4 amendments
• - lot size
• - parking setbacks
• - accessory housing

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Environment

• Existing Conditions
• Paving
• Streams
• Metro proximity

1970
1950
2000
1979
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Environment

• Benefits of redevelopment
• Connections
• More pervious surface
• Open space
• Street trees
• Green building redevelopment
• Improved stormwater management

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Transportation

• Existing Conditions
• Incomplete street grid, bike, and
• pedestrian connections
• Opportunities to make best use of Metro
• Impacted intersections

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Transportation

• Transportation Proposals
• Create grid
• Make bike, pedestrian, transit, and
• vehicle connections
• Metro-oriented, mixed-use development

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Parks and Open Space

• Existing Conditions
• Local parks outside the Plan area
• Near Rock Creek Park
• Plan Proposals
• Add local amenities
• Make regional connections

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• Actions
• Set public hearing date
• Establish worksession schedule