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Montgomery Matters update: county staff cite 1,000+ engagements, highlight housing, flood and broadband challenges
Summary
Planning staff reported more than 1,000 public contacts and survey responses for the "Montgomery Matters" comprehensive-plan update and identified housing supply, flood-hazard mapping and broadband deployment as priority issues; next stakeholder meetings are scheduled for the week of Oct. 21.
Justin, the county planning director, gave the Planning Commission a progress report on the "Montgomery Matters" comprehensive-plan update at the Oct. 9 meeting, summarizing public engagement, data sources and early recommendations. "We spoke with over a thousand individual citizens at those events," Justin said, describing outreach at festivals, public intercepts and two rounds of stakeholder meetings.
Staff said they used multiple data sources for analysis, including the 2020 decennial census, the American Community Survey, population estimates from the Weldon Cooper Center and local building-permit data. Justin told commissioners the county also selected benchmark communities…
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