What is Thrive 2050?
November 16, 2021
Dear Resident:
By now you may have seen email traffic on your local listserv about Thrive Montgomery 2050. Perhaps some of it is alarming.
I’d like to provide some context and clarification for your consideration. I support moving forward with Thrive because I believe we need to be more creative and think differently about housing.
So, what is Thrive anyway?
Thrive is a guide for our community planning process. It is a policy document that is at the “vision and strategy” level.
You’re already living with the policy vision embodied in Thrive. That’s because what Thrive does is update a 1950s “general plan” with the modern planning principles that we have been using for years now.
If you like the changes in development that we are making on Rockville Pike — you can see them in action at Pike & Rose — then you’re valuing the kinds of ideas that Thrive articulates.
So while broadly Thrive is already in use, there are a few important shifts that Thrive also calls for. They don’t happen directly as a result of Thrive, but Planners and the Council will have guidance to consider them in the future.