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Do Not Delay Thrive 2050

Letter to County Council, February 15, 2022

The Action Committee for Transit (ACT) believes that one of the best ways to achieve the goal of racial equity and social justice in Montgomery County is by dismantling exclusionary zoning. The current draft of the County’s general plan, Thrive 2050, constitutes a significant first step towards that goal. For well over two years, residents of Montgomery County have weighed in on the process, debated language and goals, and recommended improvements to the plan. This participation has been broadened and deepened by expanded use of virtual technology, at both the Planning Board and the Council’s PHED committee hearings, resulting in testimony much more representative of our community’s economic and social diversity than in the past.

Montgomery County currently operates under a general plan first written in 1963 and last updated in 1993, almost 30 years ago. Montgomery County has evolved and diversified and our land use policies must evolve as well. ACT calls on the Council to take up and pass Thrive 2050 and begin the necessary process of dismantling exclusionary zoning, improving housing affordability, advancing racial equity, and bringing our county’s housing policy into the 21st century. There is no excuse for delay.

Paul Goldman

Action Committee for Transit