Four Corners Master Plan Highlights
Approved and Adopted (December 1996)
Theme 1 - Community & Center
Vision
This
Master Plan supports and reinforces Four Corners
as a community of neighborhoods. The Plan seeks
to strengthen the community's center by providing
guidelines for the planned public projects in
Four Corners.
Highlights
This Plan seeks to maintain and preserve the character and integrity of the Four Corners residential neighborhoods as the foundation of the community. The commercial district, at the intersection of Colesville Road and University Boulevard, is the literal and figurative heart of community, as well as the front door to the surrounding residential neighborhoods. Without the commercial district, Four Corners would consist of five separate neighborhoods, divided and isolated by major highways. The commercial center, despite its current appearance, is the magnet and activity hub that crates a place, rather than simply intersection of two major roads. This Master Plan sustains a livable community of neighborhoods in Four Corners by preserving the positive existing attributes and guiding change so that it strengthens the function, character, and appearance of the area.
Recommendations
- Retain existing residential zoning to protect and reinforce the neighborhoods as the the foundation of the community.
- Retain the existing commercial district boundaries and encourage clear delineation between residential and non-residential areas through landscaping or other physical barriers.
- Provide guidelines for the public projects planned in Four Corners with the goal of improving the function and appearance of the commercial district.
- Improve the entire commercial district through a public-private partnership between local owners and the County's commercial revitalization program.
Date of last update: November 27, 2007
Montgomery County Planning Department