Local Area Transportation Review (LATR) and Policy Area Mobility Review (PAMR) Guidelines
These guidelines are intended to ensure that development in Montgomery County is accompanied by appropriate and sufficient transportation facilities. They are used by the Planning Board and staff to estimate the impacts of development on the transportation network and determine effective ways to mitigate that impact.
In 1973, the County Council adopted an Adequate Public Facilities Ordinance and granted the Planning Board administrative oversight to ensure that adequate public facilities exist to accommodate growth. Since then, Montgomery County has considered the impacts of development on the transportation system, guided by the County Council’s Growth Policy, which is reviewed on every two years.
The LATR/PAMR document implements the Growth Policy, which includes Local Area Transportation Review (LATR) to measure development impacts on local roads near the development site, and Policy Area Mobility Review (PAMR) to address impacts on a wider geographic scale.
PAMR continues to examine policy areas, but measuring the capacity of both arterial roads and transit. Introducing transit into the analysis supports and measures the success of the County’s long-standing policy to focus growth at transit nodes including the Metro Station Policy Areas. The County’s multi-modal focus is further supported by the mitigation options in this publication that include enhancements to transit, pedestrian, and bicycle facilities.
These guidelines were developed based on standards and practices developed by the Institute of Transportation Engineers and the Transportation Research Board. Those best practices have been adapted to Montgomery County, based on research into local conditions.
Download the 2011 LATR/PAMR Guidelines (pdf, 2.25MB)
M-NCPPC Staff Contact
Eric Graye, Transportation Planning
301-495-4632
Eric.Graye@montgomeryplanning.org
Submissions of traffic counts for LATR or requests for traffic counts may be sent to MCP-trafficcounts@mncppc-mc.org
Date of last update: January 23, 2012
Montgomery County Planning Department