Master Plan List
Master Plans
Each community within Montgomery County has a master plan that creates a comprehensive view of land use trends and future development. Plans recommend land uses, zoning, transportation, schools, parks, libraries, and fire and police stations as well as address housing, historic preservation, pedestrian and trail systems and environmental issues. Planners create new master plans every 15 or 20 years.
- Ashton Village Center Sector Plan (in progress)
- Aspen Hill Master Plan (1994)
- Aspen Hill Minor Master Plan Amendment (2015)
- Bethesda Downtown Sector Plan (2017)
- Comprehensive Amendment to the Bethesda/Chevy Chase Master Plan (1990)
- Bicycle Master Plan (2018)
- Boyds Master Plan (1985)
- Burtonsville Commercial Crossroads Neighborhood Plan (2012)
- Capitol View & Vicinity Sector Plan (1982)
- Chevy Chase Lake Sector Plan (2013)
- Clarksburg Master Plan and Hyattstown Special Study Area (1994)
- Clarksburg Limited Master Plan Amendment (2011)
- Cloverly Master Plan (1997)
- Countywide Transit Corridors Functional Master Plan (2013)
- Damascus Master Plan (2006)
- Damascus Master Plan (1982/1985)
- East Silver Spring Master Plan (2000)
- Fairland Master Plan (1997)
- Fairland and Briggs Chaney Master Plan (in progress)
- Forest Glen Sector Plan Comprehensive Amendment to 1978 Sector Plan (1996)
- Forest Glen/Montgomery Hills Sector Plan (2020)
- Four Corners Sector Plan (1986)
- Four Corners Master Plan (1996)
- Friendship Heights Sector Plan (1998)
- Gaithersburg Vicinity Master Plan (1985/1988/1990/1996)
- General Plans on Wedges and Corridors (1964/1969/1993); Thrive 2050 (in progress)
- Germantown Employment Area Sector Plan (2009)
- Germantown Master Plan (1989)
- Germantown Plan for the Town Sector Zone (in progress)
- Glenmont Sector Plan (2013)
- Glenmont Transit Impact Area and Vicinity Sector Plan (1997)
- Great Seneca Science Corridor (2010)
- Grosvenor-Strathmore Metro Area Minor Master Plan Amendment (2018)
- Intercounty Connector Limited Functional Master Plan: Bikeways and Interchanges (2009)
- Historic Preservation (1979)
- Kemp Mill Master Plan (2001)
- Kensington Sector Plan Update (2012)
- Kensington-Wheaton Communities Master Plan (1989)
- Long Branch Sector Plan (2013)
- Master Plan of Highways and Transitways (2018)
- Montgomery Village Master Plan (2016)
- Greater Lyttonsville Sector Plan (2017)
- MARC Rail Communities Plan (2019)
- North Bethesda/Garrett Park Master Plan (1992)
- North & West Silver Spring Master Plan (2000)
- Olney Master Plan (2005)
- Patuxent River Watershed (1993)
- Pedestrian Master Plan (in progress)
- Potomac Subregion Master Plan (2002)
- Preservation of Agriculture and Rural Open Space Functional Master Plan (1980)
- Purple Line Functional Plan (2010)
- Rock Spring Sector Plan (2017)
- Rustic Roads Functional Master Plan (1996)
- Sandy Spring/Ashton Master Plan (1998)
- Sandy Spring Rural Village Plan (2015)
- Shady Grove Minor Master Plan Amendment (in progress)
- Shady Grove Sector Plan (2006)
- Shady Grove Study Area Master Plan (1990)
- Shady Grove Sector Plan Transit Station Area (1977)
- Silver Spring CBD Sector Plan (2000)
- Silver Spring Downtown and Adjacent Communities Plan (2022)
- Takoma/Langley Crossroads Sector Plan (2012)
- Takoma Park Master Plan (2000)
- Ten Mile Creek Area Limited Amendment to the Clarksburg Master Plan (2014)
- Twinbrook Sector Plan (2009)
- Upper Rock Creek Master Plan (2004)
- Veirs Mill Corridor Master Plan (2019)
- Water Resources Functional Plan (2010)
- Westbard Sector Plan (2016)
- Wheaton Central Business District and Vicinity, Limited Amendment to the Sector Plan (2008)
- Wheaton Central Business District and Vicinity Sector Plan (2012)
- White Flint Sector Plan (North Bethesda’s Urban Center) (2010)
- White Flint 2 Sector Plan (2018)
- White Oak Master Plan (1997)
- White Oak Science Gateway (formerly the East County Science Center) (2014)
Other Resources
- Agritourism Study (2019)
- Aspen Hill Vision Zero Study (2019)
- Eastern Montgomery County Master Plan Areas (Four Corners, White Oak, Cloverly, Fairland) Environmental Resources (1996)
- Germantown Town Center Design Study (1992)
- Georgia Avenue Concept Study (2008)
- MD355/I-270 Technology Corridor Study (2008)
- Subdivision Staging Policy
Last Updated: March 14, 2023