Zoning Montgomery

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Find out when planners will be out of the office for a mandatory furlough.

Media Center: County Planning Department to go on Furlough August 2-6 SILVER SPRING, MD – The Montgomery County Planning Department will be closed August 2-6 on a furlough. The Park and Planning Headquarters building, which houses the Planning Department at 8787 Georgia Avenue in Silver Spring, will be closed, and no...

The current use table lists 18 different types of office uses (i.e. "offices, business" "offices, insurance claims" "offices, professional" etc). We've suggested narrowing this down to three office types: "offices, business or professional" "offices, medical or dental" and "offices, research & development". What do you think? Is that too narrow? Too broad?

Montgomery County has a total of 120 zones. To put this in a local context, Prince George's has 58 zones, DC has 49 zones and Arlington has 37 zones. Like this comment if you think its time to go on a Zone diet!