Volunteer in the Smart Growth/Transportation Program

Join us in our efforts to promote transit-oriented development in Montgomery County, and to enhance our transit systems! Here's how

This is an issue analysis and advocacy business. We need people interested in learning the principles of smart growth and applying them to land use and transportation issues to be decided by County officials.

Slide Show Creator

Have creative talents that you want to put to a greener purpose? Help us create a dynamic, exciting, inspiring Power Point presentation on Smart Growth principles drawing on concrete examples from around the world—and around the corner—that we could implement in the County.

Smart Growth Advocates

West Gaithersburg, Damascus, Germantown and other communities are threatened with damaging sprawl development because of the current zoning laws and master plan proposals. Become an expert on a particular master plan and advocate for Montgomery County Sierra Club's smart growth principles through testimony and meetings with the Planning Board and County Council.

Smart Growth Interpreters

We need people to help residents become better informed about the concept of smart growth and what smart growth would look like in their own neighborhoods. Help residents of communities undergoing master plan amendments (e.g., Germantown, White Flint/North Bethesda, Wheaton) become more knowledgeable about smart growth.

• Help us find venues in your community for planning meetings.
• Get the word out! Contact others to attend and host the meetings.
• Organize events to get the community involved in smart growth planning alternatives (e.g., charrettes, neighborhood walks, mapping present and planned transit routes).

Transit Advocates

Help convince our legislature just how damaging it is to keep spending money on the ICC in the current financial (and heating!) climate, at the expense of cleaner, efficient transit. Attend transit meetings, testify in support of the Purple Line, Bus Rapid Transit routes to link Olney, Germantown, and other communities to the metropolitan transit centers, and organize events to promote transit over gridlock!

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