July Update - Roundtables and Doorhangers

The City of Rockville Comprehensive Planning team has been busy over the past month hosting a series of roundtable discussions bringing together representatives from organizations representing various demographic and stakeholder groups. Overall, there will be a total eleven roundtables.

A photo from our Affordable Housing Roundtable

Our team has also visited every residence (nearly 2,000 of them!) within Town Center to leave a doorhanger letting residents know that the Town Center Master Plan is happening and how they can get involved. We couldn’t get into every multi-family building, but if you didn’t get a doorhanger, check out your mailroom where there might be a pile!

Did you see one of these doorhangers on your front door? We put hundreds of doorhangers on residences throughout Town Center.

Survey closing on August 18!

Continue to share your thoughts anytime by using a variety of feedback tools available on the project’s Engage Rockville webpage until August 18. The webpage has a survey, reaction map, question and answer box, and idea board.

After August 18, we will begin crunching the numbers and putting together a comprehensive report summarizing what we heard from the past four months of community outreach and engagement.

Did you know?

Town Center’s housing stock is overwhelmingly multi-family buildings with more than 20 units. Most of the residences (74.7%) are renter-occupied with a very low rental vacancy rate (1.2%), as of 2021. Nearly half of homes in Town Center were built after 2000 and nearly half are one-bedroom units. Median rents are about average for the region at $1,762, but the median sale price is a bit lower than elsewhere at $388,100, given the prominence of condo units. This has still left 36% of homeowners and 42% of renters paying more than 30% of their income for housing, meaning that they are housing cost-burdened. This shows there is a strong need to address housing affordability in Town Center.

Coming Up

Over the next few months, planning staff will be:

  • Tabling at events and community gathering places and visiting businesses

  • Meeting one-on-one with stakeholders (let us know if you/your group wants to meet!)

  • Hosting and partnering with community organizations to put on roundtable conversations targeted for specific user groups and demographics

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