New Resources & Updated Project Schedule

The Mayor and Council hosted a public hearing on the Town Center Master Plan on October 28. At this meeting, individuals and organizations had the opportunity to present their feedback on the draft Plan to the elected body for their consideration. Staff also gave a presentation with an overview of the Plan and the major changes since the first draft was released in April. View the full agenda packet, which includes staff’s presentation to the Mayor and Council.

After public testimony ended, the Mayor and Council opted to keep the record open for additional comments from the public. If you haven’t testified with your thoughts on the Plan but would like to, please send your comments via email to mayorandcouncil@rockvillemd.gov and carbon copy comprehensiveplan@rockvillemd.gov. Once a closing date for accepting additional public testimony is determined, we will share that on the Engage Rockville page.

Following discussion at the October 28 meeting, an additional public hearing has been added to the schedule. This public hearing will take place on Monday, December 9. This meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. and take place in a hybrid fashion – the community may attend and/or participate in the meeting either in person at Rockville City Hall, or virtually via Webex. The agenda packet for the meeting will be uploaded to the Agenda Center of the city’s website approximately 10 days before the meeting.

Given the addition of this meeting, the latest schedule for the Plan’s adoption is as follows:

December 9: Public Hearing #2 (new addition to schedule)

December 9: Work Session

January 13: Tentative Adoption of the Plan

This week staff created and published three documents to assist the community in reviewing the draft Plan. These resources are designed to assist the community with understanding the changes that were made to the Plan through the Planning Commission’s review cycle and summarize the opportunities for engagement that have taken place so far. We encourage you to review the following documents:

Outreach and Engagement Summary: This document provides a high-level overview of the outreach and engagement that has taken place throughout this process. As a reminder, the Community Engagement Report, published in October 2023, provides a very detailed summary of the efforts that took place from April – September 2024.

Summary of Changes: This document provides a list of the modifications made to goals, policies and recommended actions within the Plan since the first draft was released in April 2024.

Redline Plan Draft: This document is a “redline” markup of the draft Plan. This document uses the first draft, released in April 2024, as the base, then marks up all the changes that have been made to the document before it was approved by the Planning Commission. Please note that due to the nature of a marked-up document, the layout and formatting in the redline isn't perfect. These layout issues, such as duplicate page numbers and a few blank pages, are addressed in the PDF version of the Planning Commission Approved Draft.

While these documents are hyperlinked in this news feed post, they can also be accessed under the “Reports & Documents” tab on the right sidebar of the Engage Rockville page.