Healthy and Sustainable Communities Project
How will we sustain our quality of life for future generations – and how do we measure our progress?
Following Council’s direction in the 2007 Growth Policy, environmental planning staff delivered an initial set of potential “Healthy and Sustainable Communities” policy goals and indicators, or ways to measure progress. The Board approved the recommendations in September and sent them to the County Council for review. These goals and indicators will help policymakers and community members judge how their policies, programs, and actions contribute to achieving goals such as clean air and water.
The Framework for Action report, drafted in a partnership with the County Department of Environmental Protection, evolved from public input gathered at a Healthy and Sustainable Communities workshop in June. We also included many comments contributed online at the Planning Department’s website, where people could submit comments – and view what others said – on each of the indicators.
The report specifies six goals and recommends a number of indicators that will help measure the county’s collective efforts toward reaching those goals. We see the project as a starting point and will continue our work with the County Executive to create more indicators to measure our mutual goals for housing, transportation, public safety, education and others.
NEW Join environmental planning staff for "Setting Goals, Measuring Progress on Sustainability Indicators," a presentation that will explain the project and how you can get involved, noon to 2 p.m. November 17, Twinbrook Library, Rockville.
Healthy and Sustainable Communities Workshop
The Healthy and Sustainable Communities Workshop, held June 25-26 in Rockville, set the stage for a new dialogue on suggested goals and indicators that will serve as a barometer to measure how well we have met our sustainability goals. Together, the goals and indicators provide a comprehensive picture of our collective sustainability efforts and will help generate coordinated policies.
Workshop co-sponsored by the Montgomery County Planning Board and the
NEW See notes and summaries of the workshop below. Please review the results of any sessions that interest you and provide comments on those results via links in the 'Give us your feedback' box at right or below with each goal. Comments received by July 31 will be considered in the draft report to the Planning Board.
The workshop help set the agenda for county planners as well as a new county Sustainability Working Group.
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