The White Flint Sector Plan:

     This Sector Plan establishes policies for transforming an auto-oriented suburban development pattern into an urban center of residences and businesses where people walk to work, shops and transit. Offices and plazas are full of workers during the day. At night and on weekends people attend the theater, visit galleries, and eat out. In the summer, people are out enjoying evening activities. Rockville Pike will be transformed from a traffic barrier dividing the center into a unifying multi-modal boulevard. White Flint will be a place where different lifestyles converge to make urban living interesting and exciting. The proposed cultural and retail destinations in and around the civic core, the open space system, and the walkable street grid unite to energize White Flint. From this energy, White Flint will become a vibrant and sustainable urban center that can adapt and respond to existing and future challenges.

     There are few locations remaining in Montgomery County where excellent transit service and redevelopment potential coincide. The MD 355/I-270 Corridor is a historic travel and trade route that links communities in Montgomery County to those in Frederick County. In the last 30 years the corridor has emerged as a prime location for advanced technology and biotechnology industries with regional shopping and cultural destinations. White Flint fits squarely into Montgomery County’s General Plan and long range policies as the place to accommodate a substantial portion of the region’s projected growth, especially housing. This Plan recommends adding more residential capacity near existing transit facilities to balance land uses in the MD 355/I-270 Corridor. A substantial housing resource at White Flint is well situated to support the planned expansion of federal facilities in White Flint (Nuclear Regulatory Commission) and Bethesda (Walter Reed National Military Medical Center) and provide a sufficient supply of housing options to serve County residents throughout their stages of life.