Sustainable Development Goal: 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities

All Dogs Go to Prince George’s County: Finding a Home for a Second Animal Services Facility

As a continuation of the Fall 2017 PALS project, Spring 2018 semester students from the community planning and engineering programs used advanced computer mapping tools (geographic information system, or GIS) to provide Prince Georgeâ€™s County with potential sites to build a second animal shelter. The team attempted to find land that the county already owned, […]

Visualizing Recreational Trails: Montgomery County, Maryland

At the request of the Montgomery County Department of Parks, eight county recreation trails were visualized via 360Â° photos and video, to help develop a state-of-the-art bike stress index tailored toward mountain bike trails. Using the Google Street View platform to publish photos online as well as several GIS open-source datasets and analytic tools, approximately […]

Capital Overlook Apartments

Considering the economics, demographics and the background of the site, the vision for its development is an affordable residential project. The area surrounding the site is home to a older housing stock, with little to no new development in the immediate area. The economic makeup of the area is largely low-income and working-class citizens, many […]

Bulldog Development: 5345 Sheriff Road Feasibility Study

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Fairmount Park Apartments

Fairmount Park Apartments is the first rental apartment building in the Town of Fairmount Heights, Maryland, adjacent to Washington, D.C. It is a sustainable and community-oriented mixed-use development on 4.4 acres, of 171 units, 102 market-rate units and 69 affordable units aimed at 60 percent of AMI. It will include 7,000-square feet of ground floor […]

Exploring the Safe Routes to School Program: Feasibility of Using an Active Mode of Transportation to and from School in Prince George’s County, Maryland

Safe Routes to School (SR2S) is a program that promotes student health by encouraging an active mode of transportation. â€œThe Safe Routes to School National Partnership’s mission is to advance safe walking and bicycling to and from schools, and in daily life, to improve the health and well-being of America’s children and to foster the […]

A Long Life for Long Branch: Tools to Preserve Independent Retailers

Through their work with the National Center for Smart Growth at the University of Maryland, the Montgomery County Planning Department commissioned this report from the universityâ€™s Partnership for Action Learning in Sustainability (PALS). PALS works with local jurisdictions throughout Maryland to identify projects and problems that can be taught through university courses where students focus […]

Silver Spring Civic Building and Veteran’s Plaza Economic Impact Analysis FY-2017

The Silver Spring Regional Center sought a report detailing the economic and fiscal impacts of the Silver Spring Civic Building at Veteran’s Plaza (SSCB) on Montgomery County’s economy in 2017. The SSCB is an indoor community facility for events, festivals, trade shows, conferences and conventions, and other activities available to county residents and out-of-town groups. […]

Park Supply and Demand Part II: Downtown Silver Spring

As Downtown Silver Spring continues to urbanize, it becomes increasingly important to provide its residents and workforce with adequate recreational space. In conjunction with the the Maryland- National Capital Park and Planning Commission (M-NCPPC), this report investigates which areas of Downtown Silver Spring are adequately served by parks and those that lack robust access to […]

Making Place: Transit-Oriented Development for Largo, MD

Largo, MD is a city of 12,000 people at the intersection of the Beltway and the Metropolitan DC Blue Line. It is currently being planned as the future center of the Prince Georgeâ€™s County Government and the home of the new University of Maryland Capital Region Medical Center. The overall site has exceptional access to […]

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