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GLOSSARY OF PLANNING TERMS
Term
Description
Mining
As shown on the Existing Land Use Map, a land use
category that is limited to quarries.
Mixed Use
As shown on the Existing Land Use Map, areas
including traditional main street or village corridors,
featuring retail, residential, and office facilities with
little separation among uses.
Mobile Home Park
As shown on the Existing Land Use Map, Residential
developments with mobile or manufactured homes
Montgomery County
Workforce Investment
Board (MCWIB)
A board, which meets every other month, which
seeks to increase awareness of workforce
development issues and to strengthen the county's
workforce development system by developing
partnerships with business, government and
community-based organizations.
Moving Ahead for
Progress in the 21st
Century (MAP-21)
This transportation bill was signed into law on July 6,
2012. Funding surface transportation programs at
over $105 billion for fiscal years (FY) 2013 and
2014, MAP-21 is the first long-term highway
authorization enacted since 2005.
Multifamily
As shown on the Existing Land Use Map, residential
buildings that contain more than one dwelling unit,
with units usually horizontally separated, such as
apartments, including garden-style apartment
complexes, and duplexes.
Municipal Separate Storm
Sewer (MS4) program
This program aims to prevent harmful pollutants
from being washed or dumped into an MS4, and
requires operators to obtain a NPDES permit and
develop a stormwater management program. Phase I,
issued in 1990, requires medium and large cities or
certain counties with populations of 100,000 or more
to obtain NPDES permit coverage for stormwater
discharges. Phase II, issued in 1999, requires
regulated small MS4s in urbanized areas, as well as
small MS4s outside the urbanized areas that are
designated by the permitting authority, to obtain
NPDES permit coverage for stormwater discharges.
Multimodal
In relation to transportation, involving more than one
means of transport (such as biking and walking).
Term
Description
Institutional
As shown on the Existing Land Use Map, a land use
category that includes a wide variety of governmental
and non-profit services, such as government centers,
educational facilities, places of worship, cemeteries,
hospitals and medical centers, nursing homes, life
care facilities, and correctional facilities.
Intelligent Transportation
Systems (ITS)
Advanced applications which aim to provide
innovative services relating to different modes of
transport and traffic management and enable various
users to be better informed and make safer, more
coordinated, and 'smarter' use of transport networks.
Leadership in Energy and
Environmental Design
(LEED)
A voluntary, consensus-based, market-driven
program that provides third-party verification of
green buildings.
Local Roads
A federal highway functional classification, these
consist of all roads not defined as arterials or
collectors and which primarily provides access to
land rather than allow through traffic for vehicles.
This class includes all residential side streets.
Location Quotient (LQ)
A ratio that compares a region to a larger reference
region according to some characteristic or asset, such
as the strength of a particular industry
Meal Delivery Provider
A service providing meal delivery service to the
elderly or home-bound, such as Meals on Wheels
Medicaid
The federal program for families and individuals with
low income and resources. It is a means-tested
program that is jointly funded by the state and federal
governments, and is managed by the states. People
served by Medicaid are citizens or legal permanent
residents, including low-income adults, their
children, and people with certain disabilities. Poverty
alone does not qualify someone for Medicaid.
Land Bank
The aggregation of parcels of land for future sale or
development to effectively manage and repurpose an
inventory of abandoned or foreclosed property.
Millennials
The demographic cohort following Generation X,
primarily born from 1980 to 2000.
