The first draft of the Great Seneca Plan: Connecting Life and Science will be presented to the Montgomery County Planning Board for its review this Thursday, February 1, 2024. You can watch the presentation’s livestream on the Planning Board’s website.
The Working Draft focuses on strengthening the economic competitiveness of the Life Sciences Center through mixed-use development, public realm improvements, equitable access, and implementation strategies, as well as creating a sustainable community with a diversity of housing types, local-serving amenities and services in the Londonderry and Hoyle’s Addition area.
The draft plan’s recommendations focus on the built, social, natural, and economic environments and provide guidance for land use; zoning; urban design; transportation; parks, trails, and public open space; the economy; the environment; and plan implementation.
Following the Working Draft presentation, the Planning Board will schedule a public hearing on the plan for some time this spring. Read the Working Draft of the Great Seneca Plan: Connecting Life and Science and the staff report. There’s also an exciting new study from Montgomery Planning about the Life Sciences Center (scroll down for more information). Many of the study’s recommendations informed the Working Draft
Last fall, Montgomery Planning commissioned a study to examine the real estate needs of the life sciences industry, evaluate the compatibility of integrating life sciences with housing and small-scale commercial development, and develop a set of actionable recommendations to support continued growth of the life sciences industry in the Great Seneca corridor. The study will serve as a resource for all current and future life science plans and development, and it directly accompanies the Great Seneca Plan.
Read the study and watch Montgomery Planning’s January 25 presentation of the study to the Montgomery County Planning Board. Courtesy of Montgomery Planning