University: University of Maryland

Bulldog Development: 5345 Sheriff Road Feasibility Study

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Fairmount Park Apartments

Fairmount Park Apartments is the first rental apartment building in the Town of Fairmount Heights, Maryland, adjacent to Washington, D.C. It is a sustainable and community-oriented mixed-use development on 4.4 acres, of 171 units, 102 market-rate units and 69 affordable units aimed at 60 percent of AMI. It will include 7,000-square feet of ground floor […]

Exploring the Safe Routes to School Program: Feasibility of Using an Active Mode of Transportation to and from School in Prince Georgeâ€™s County, Maryland

Safe Routes to School (SR2S) is a program that promotes student health by encouraging an active mode of transportation. â€œThe Safe Routes to School National Partnership’s mission is to advance safe walking and bicycling to and from schools, and in daily life, to improve the health and well-being of America’s children and to foster the […]

Thoughtful Interventions Brookside Gardens, Montgomery County, MD

The Brookside Gardens project focuses on three major spaces; the Visitors Center Plaza and Lawn, the Azalea Garden, and the Camellia Garden. The project focuses on thoughtful interventions for these areas that provide ADA pathways, connections between gardens, stormwater solutions, gathering spaces, and plantings.This project has been created by the students of the University of […]

Brookside Gardens Stroll for Wellness

The positive benefits of exposure to nature and green spaces related to wellness are well-documented. A structured walk in a garden or park setting, in combination with reflective journaling, has proven to be invaluable and life-changing to community members suffering from the adverse effects of stress and trauma suffering from grief, depression, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder […]

Obstacles to Community Participation in Reporting Pest-Related Tree Damage

For our Environmental Science and Policy Capstone project at the University of Maryland, we were assigned a Montgomery County Parks project. The goals of this capstone project were to inspire and increase community involvement to report invasive insect and disease pests and to inform residents about invasive tree pests, particularly educating residents on how to […]

Susceptibility of Montgomery Park Trees to Emerging Invasive Pests

This report provides recommendations to the Montgomery County Department of Parks on the management of four invasive pests: Asian longhorned beetle (Anoplophora glabripennis), spotted lanternfly (Lycorma delicatula), oak wilt, and thousand cankers disease in managed park regions. To prepare for these potential infestations, an analysis of the risk to current park tree populations was performed […]

All Dogs Go to Prince Georgeâ€™s County: Finding a Home for a Second Animal Services Facility

As a continuation of the Fall 2017 PALS project, Spring 2018 semester students from the community planning and engineering programs used advanced computer mapping tools (geographic information system, or GIS) to provide Prince Georgeâ€™s County with potential sites to build a second animal shelter. The team attempted to find land that the county already owned, […]

Visualizing Recreational Trails: Montgomery County, Maryland

At the request of the Montgomery County Department of Parks, eight county recreation trails were visualized via 360Â° photos and video, to help develop a state-of-the-art bike stress index tailored toward mountain bike trails. Using the Google Street View platform to publish photos online as well as several GIS open-source datasets and analytic tools, approximately […]

Prince Georgeâ€™s County Food Scraps Composting Pilot Program

This projectâ€™s goal was to construct innovative ways to promote composting through the Prince Georgeâ€™s County Composting Pilot Program, working with the Countyâ€™s project manager Denice Curry. Throughout this semester, we split the investigations into four different Design Projects. In these Design Projects, we cultivated our interviewing skills, learning how to note details and analyze […]

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