{"id":577362,"date":"2023-03-30T07:08:33","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T14:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/?post_type=blog&#038;p=577362"},"modified":"2026-03-03T10:49:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T18:49:32","slug":"maryland-county-planning-digital-twin","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/blog\/maryland-county-planning-digital-twin","title":{"rendered":"Digital Twin Boosts Growth, Sustainability Planning in Maryland County"},"author":671,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sync_status":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","castos_file_data":"","podmotor_file_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[287902,21622,1271,338282,237681],"industry":[],"esri-blog-category":[478722,478452],"esri_blog_department":[492402],"class_list":["post-577362","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-development","tag-digital-twin","tag-housing","tag-los-angeles","tag-urban-planning","esri-blog-category-housing","esri-blog-category-smart-planning","esri_blog_department-urban-planning"],"acf":{"video_source":"","video_start":"","video_stop":"","short_description":"A planning digital twin keeps developers and the public informed of proposed development projects in Montgomery County, Maryland.","pdf":{"host_remotely":false,"file":"","file_url":""},"flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"sidebar","layout":"standard","image_reference":null,"image_reference_figure":"","spotlight_image":null,"section_title":"","spotlight_name":"","position":"Right","content":"To remedy a housing shortage and prioritize smart growth, planners in Maryland\u2019s most populous county created a digital twin that provide an informed picture of the region\u2019s future.\r\n\r\nKey Takeaways\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>A growing population in Montgomery County drives smart, sustainable development.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Montgomery Planning Department staff embrace 3D modeling to speed the regulatory process for transit-oriented development.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Smart city planning with GIS supports compliance and transparency among stakeholders.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>","snippet":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maryland\u2019s most densely populated and wealthiest county updates maps and models of planned development\u2014creating a planning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/en-us\/digital-twin\/overview\">digital twin<\/a>\u2014to shape housing and sustainability goals.\u00a0The result: This dynamic digital twin gives developers an accurate picture of potential opportunities. It also helps the public understand what their community\u2014down to a single block\u2014will look like in the future.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many of <a href=\"https:\/\/public.tableau.com\/app\/profile\/us.census.bureau\/viz\/2020CensusPopulationandHousingMap\/County?:showVizHome=no&amp;STATE%20NAME%20(cb%202020%20us%20county%20500k.shp)=Maryland\">Montgomery County\u2019s 1.06 million residents<\/a> live in Bethesda and Silver Spring, urban enclaves just outside the nation\u2019s capital. Like urban areas across the US, planners there contend with balancing affordable housing and an interest in preserving forests and farms.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Montgomery County officials have pioneered new ways to manage these issues for decades. To address affordable housing in 1974, the county implemented the nation\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.montgomerycountymd.gov\/DHCA\/housing\/singlefamily\/mpdu\/history_law.html\">first successful moderately priced dwelling unit program<\/a>. In 1980, the county established the Agricultural Reserve by <a href=\"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/planning\/agricultural-reserve\/\">preserving 93,000 acres<\/a>\u2014almost a third of its land resources. A few years later, density placement was transformed by the <a href=\"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/about-planning\/mission\/glossary\/#o\">Optional Method of Development<\/a>, which allowed higher densities in urban areas in exchange for added public amenities or increased land preservation in rural areas.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To keep pace with changing demographics and housing demand, <a href=\"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/\">Montgomery Planning<\/a> staff have embraced geographic information system (GIS) technology. The county uses GIS to increase transparency, keeping developers and the public informed about projects while speeding regulatory processes. They are digitizing 2D plans, integrating them with 3D modeling software, and sharing them online. The dynamic digital twin that keeps pace with plans gives developers an accurate picture of potential areas of opportunity.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/planning\/master-plan-list\/general-plans\/thrive-montgomery-2050\/\">Montgomery County\u2019s Thrive 2050<\/a> plan prioritizes dense, sustainable housing. It concentrates growth in downtown areas, emphasizes transit-oriented development, and insists on racial equity and climate resilience. Passed with a unanimous planning board vote, the <a href=\"https:\/\/montgomeryplanning.org\/montgomery-planning-wins-two-awards-from-the-american-planning-association-national-capital-area-chapter-for-thrive-montgomery-2050-equitable-engagement-efforts-and-for-planning-director-gwen-wright\/\">award-winning plan<\/a> has officials optimistic that it will address housing needs far into the future.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe know we need to satisfy more residential development to keep housing affordable,\u201d said Chris McGovern, manager of the Information Systems\/Geographic Inventory System at Montgomery Parks and Planning. \u201cBy focusing growth along certain transit corridors near metro stations, we\u2019re giving developers an incentive to build a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Missing_middle_housing\">missing middle housing<\/a> solution where duplexes, triplexes, and infill development can grow.\u201d<\/p>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"gallery","gallery_images":[577472,577462,577482,577452]},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>A Blueprint for Progress<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The department has used digital tools to inform the public for years. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcatlas.org\/daic8\/CompletePlansList.aspx\">Development Activity Information Center<\/a> (DAIC) indexes project descriptions, maps, drawings, and other information. The <a href=\"https:\/\/mcatlas.org\/viewer\/\">MCATLAS map viewer<\/a> displays related data\u2014county and election boundaries, priority funding areas, and opportunity zones. An interactive <a href=\"https:\/\/mcatlas.org\/developmentactivity\/\">Development Activity<\/a> map outlines developments by type and tracks progress.<\/p>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":577402,"image_position":"left-center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/app\/uploads\/2023\/03\/MCAtlas-and-DAIC.png"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even with this robust set of resources, the county\u2019s city planners and GIS specialists knew they could offer a more intuitive view of planned growth. \u201cThe DAIC is where we convey our regulatory information to the public so that they have visibility on the process and take part in our meetings,\u201d McGovern said. \u201cBut we wanted to 3D render those projects, so they\u2019d be able to understand what we\u2019re talking about without having to look at two-dimensional architectural drawings.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This, McGovern said, is where smart city planning software came in to create a countywide planning digital twin. Specialists combine 2D drawings and documents to generate a 3D model in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/en-us\/arcgis\/products\/arcgis-urban\/overview\">ArcGIS Urban<\/a>. Layers such as building footprints and property lines add context to the model to give anyone a quick visual of what is proposed. Architects, planners, and developers can access ArcGIS Urban to see the project\u2019s spatial aspects\u2014something that once required looking through dozens of documents.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI used to struggle to try to publish 3D things,\u201d said Jay Mukherjee, the planning department\u2019s principal GIS specialist. \u201cThe ability to create these amazing models that you can fly around and see\u00a0in relation and in context to the surrounding built and natural environment\u00a0is incredible.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The planning digital twin also makes it easier for planners and city officials to check the impact of land-use changes.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe models distill the required elements of the proposal\u2014green space, open space, pedestrian and vehicular circulation, parking, number of units, densities, and building height\u2014and display the essential elements approved by the planning board,\u201d said Mary Beth O\u2019Quinn, a Montgomery County architect and urban planner.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The ability to quickly check that proposals meet all statutes, zoning, and building regulations, O\u2019Quinn said, transforms her work.<\/p>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"gallery","gallery_images":[577782,577792,577802]},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Looking to the Future<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By pairing Thrive 2050 goals with powerful digital twin technology, Montgomery County has modeled additional ambitious projects for future growth.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mukherjee and O\u2019Quinn used ArcGIS Urban to build <a href=\"https:\/\/urban.arcgis.com\/plans\/da7b177eb8ab40c1b1c006d072e54b08\/0c0da7f7-6ec8-46a0-b29e-3dede8671b72\/53b146f9-0252-465f-add1-d4345d71d598?id=5846c4f91f9f49519ac746d2f33e5aca&amp;camera=308.980%2C67.561%2C-8581027.506%2C4719422.286%2C848.061&amp;ui=embed-min\">a model of a proposed high-density housing development<\/a> on Battery Lane, just south of the National Institutes of Health\u2019s (NIH) 300-acre campus in Bethesda. The new 10-story luxury apartment building will offer far more housing than the postwar three-story apartment buildings it will replace. O\u2019Quinn and her colleagues posit that some of NIH\u2019s 18,000 employees will want to live there.<\/p>\r\nDevelopment that creates more walkable communities is one of the county\u2019s priorities. Restaurants, a park, many bus and metro stops, and small businesses are within a 10-minute walk from the new project. On Sundays, residents can walk less than a mile to the Bethesda Central Farm Market for goods and fresh produce\u2014including those grown on the county\u2019s agricultural reserve."},{"acf_fc_layout":"gallery","gallery_images":[582322,582312,582302]},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As projects are added to ArcGIS Urban, they will soon be shared on the planning department\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/en-us\/arcgis\/products\/arcgis-hub\/overview\">ArcGIS Hub<\/a> site. The new site will sort projects based on their timeline: under review, approved, under construction, and completed.<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even though a new building takes years to complete, the benefits of the models on the county's digital twin are immediate. \u201cIt\u2019s our responsibility,\u201d McGovern said, \u201cto convey the work we\u2019re doing in a digestible way to the engineering and architectural communities and the residents who are getting these things built next to them.\u201d<\/p>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Learn more about how\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/en-us\/industries\/urban-community-planning\/overview\">planners use GIS for urban and community planning<\/a>\u00a0initiatives and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/en-us\/industries\/needs\/economic-development\">economic development<\/a>.<\/p>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<em>Montgomery County now includes a link to the urban model from the Development Activity Information (DAIC) site.<\/em> The model makes use of the \"shadow buildings\" technique to create visually impactful and informative plans that represent planned development in the county. 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