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Winter Speaker Series, Session 1

Session 1: Wednesday, January 16, 2019

Recent General Plan Updates in the Washington, DC Region

Several local jurisdictions have recently updated their general plans or are in the process of updating them. A panel of current and former planning officials from Washington, DC, Loudoun County, Virginia, and Howard County, Maryland, will discuss lessons learned from these updates, including community involvement in creating the new plans.

Speakers: Tanya Stern, Deputy Director of the Montgomery County Planning Department and former Deputy Director of the DC Office of Planning; Valdis Lazdins, Planning Director of Howard County; and Ricky Barker, Director of Community Planning and Development Services for the City of Rockville and former Planning and Zoning Director of Loudoun County.

Read more about the 2019 Winter Speaker Series.