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Base Map For Workshop: Not To Scale

This document provides a base map and notes from a workshop discussing a vision for White Flint, Maryland. The group's vision was to make White Flint more walkable, pedestrian-friendly, and organized with three distinct activity hubs along Rockville Pike connected by improved bike and pedestrian infrastructure. Specific goals included clustering services within walkable distances, adding civic buildings, preserving independent retailers, and providing a diversity of retail and housing options to create a livable, mixed-use environment with a stronger sense of place.

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Base Map For Workshop: Not To Scale

This document provides a base map and notes from a workshop discussing a vision for White Flint, Maryland. The group's vision was to make White Flint more walkable, pedestrian-friendly, and organized with three distinct activity hubs along Rockville Pike connected by improved bike and pedestrian infrastructure. Specific goals included clustering services within walkable distances, adding civic buildings, preserving independent retailers, and providing a diversity of retail and housing options to create a livable, mixed-use environment with a stronger sense of place.

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Base Map for Workshop 

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Table #1  · Make White Flint more walkable, more 
pedestrian friendly, more organized. 
VISION 
PRESENTATION NOTES
White Flint will be more organized and identified. 
· The group would like to see a cluster of 
POSITIVE CHARACTERISTICS services, instead of a monolithic clump that 
· Shopping. ** now exists on the Pike.
· Services. · Would like to create the sense of “Place.”
· Metro. ** · Feel that the present plan is auto dominated.
· Cluster of Services. · Perhaps Rockville Pike should be a through 
· Balance of Services. road.
· Terminal (bike to walk to transit). · Cross­ability of the Pike by cars, but 
· Accessibility. especially by pedestrians.
· Livability. · Want to tie in the bike paths between the 
Bethesda Trolley Trail and the Rock Creek 
· Restaurants.
Loop.
· “Workability”/a center for employment.
· Want a diversity of retail, more locally­ 
· Public services (green at public facilities), 
owned small businesses (not Big Box style).
family facilities in public park, conference 
center, aquatic center. · The group wanted to see Rockville Pike 
divided into 3 central hubs (CBD’s). Each 
· Sense of place.
area would be unique to the activities that 
· Dietle’s Bar **  occur there.
** Top Picks 
Conference Center 
GENERAL COMMENTS FROM THE 
DRAWING SESSION Metro Town Center 

· Provide bike connections from Bethesda 
Trail to Rock Creek Trail. Mall 
· Make pedestrian friendly; Rockville Pike 
auto dominant.
· Underground the Pike; have local route at  MD 355
grade. · Analogy made to Connecticut Avenue and 
· Create the Pike as an Urban Boulevard. its success.
· Provide a limited service road on MD 355. · Similar to the small town or urban village 
· Enhance the crosswalks and sidewalks. setting. Mix of structural styles, sizes and 
· Underground the utilities. purposes. They cited the post office, library, 
· Create pedestrian tunnels to cross the Pike. restaurants and other businesses that serve 
· Organize the White Flint Sector Plan into  the community.
three (3) walking nodes (“3­5 minute  · Walking instead of driving.
circles”) with a variety of services (coffee  · Be more organized and identified. 
shops, laundry, etc.).
· Identify more civic buildings to the Core 
Circle (in addition to the Aquatic Center, 
Wall Park and the Conference Center, add a 
public library, community center, park on the 
east side).
· Add a neighborhood­serving hardware store.
· Add a public parking structure within every 
walking node (“circle”).
· Ensure the preservation of independent 
retailers (Mom and Pop stores).
· Provide various housing options.

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