EMPOWERING PEOPLE IN COMMUNITIES
Who We Are
What is Thrive 2050
What is Thrive 2050
Concerned residents of Montgomery County working to inform communities throughout the county on local issues.
What is Thrive 2050
What is Thrive 2050
What is Thrive 2050
The Thrive Plan will be implemented by new zones and/or amendments to existing zones ("ZTAs") to allow multi-family housing (duplexes, triplexes, quadplexes, and apartment buildings) by right in neighborhoods now zoned for single-family detached homes. When these new zoning provisions are subsequently applied to properties in single family neighborhoods.
Overarching Concerns
What Happened to Affordable & Missing Middle Housing?
What Happened to Affordable & Missing Middle Housing?
In the middle of a pandemic, when residents cannot meet in person and have concerns that are focused on staying healthy and keeping a job, a roof over their heads, and food on the table. The planning Board, at the urging of the County Council, continue to push through a plan that will affect thousands of residents who have no idea what th
In the middle of a pandemic, when residents cannot meet in person and have concerns that are focused on staying healthy and keeping a job, a roof over their heads, and food on the table. The planning Board, at the urging of the County Council, continue to push through a plan that will affect thousands of residents who have no idea what the plan is about, what it will mean to their families, homes, and neighborhoods. There is lack of partnership from neighborhood communities in the creation of this land use document. Residents have not been provided with opportunities to testify on each version of the document, prior to the final PHED version being delivered to the full Council. The process has been rushed.
What Happened to Affordable & Missing Middle Housing?
What Happened to Affordable & Missing Middle Housing?
What Happened to Affordable & Missing Middle Housing?
The Planning Board's own study found that a "missing middle" townhouse in Downtown Silver Spring would cost $715,000-$855,000, hardly affordable and definitely not "missing middle" or even attainable to anyone making less than $100,000 a year. The median household income in MoCo is about $108,000 a year and more than 50% of MoCo families won't be able to afford this housing.