Montgomery County Planning Department
Maren Hill, AICP, is a Senior Planner at the Montgomery County Planning Department since May 2016, with a strong background in urban planning and community outreach. Previous experience includes serving as Outreach Manager for the Vermont Safe Routes to School program at AECOM, where technical assistance was provided to schools promoting active transportation. Maren also held roles as a Planner for St. Albans Town, managing transportation and stormwater projects, and as a GIS Analyst for GlobalMap. Educational qualifications include a Master of City and Regional Planning from Cornell University and a BA in American Studies from Barnard College. Maren's professional history encompasses project management, stakeholder engagement, and social media strategy development for various organizations.
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Montgomery County Planning Department
Montgomery Planning examines the past and present to plan for the brightest possible future for Montgomery County and its residents. Our research and expertise are informed by the needs and realities of the public to plan, design and enhance the best use of the county’s land and related resources. Montgomery Planning’s recommendations ensure that communities are designed and equipped to keep pace with the way we live, work and play now and decades from now. WHAT WE DO In brief, Montgomery Planning develops plans and sets policies to ensure that we have what we need as Montgomery County grows while preserving what’s good about what’s already in place. We do that through: • Cutting-edge research • Development of visionary plans • Reviewing development applications • Land use and zoning regulations • Historic preservation • Services for homeowners and landowners OUR STRUCTURE While Montgomery Planning is responsible for developing plans in Montgomery County, we’re not part of Montgomery County government, and we’re independent of the County Executive and County Council. We are part of The Maryland-National Capital Parks and Planning Commission (M-NCPPC), a state agency. M-NCPPC is the organization behind the brown signs you see around the county, especially in parks (and Montgomery Planning plans for those parks!) This unique structure allows the Planning Department to make independent, non-partisan recommendations for the good of the community to the Montgomery County Planning Board, County Council and other elected officials. For more information, please visit our website!