Office of Special Projects (OSP)

Equipment and Maintenance Operations Center (EMOC) Project Webpage

Smart Growth Initiative Website

The County Executive has several long-range important strategic objectives. A study was performed expressly to examine the feasibility of moving and expanding existing uses to different facilities from a macroperspective that would provide the County with better long-term solutions for public facility needs.

This program includes relocation of facilities such as Public Safety Training Academy, Police Headquarters, Fire-Rescue Headquarters, 1st District Police Station, Homeland Security, Liquor Control Warehouses, Montgomery County Public School (MCPS) buses and depots, MCPS food services, Park and Planning Maintenance Facility, the Equipment and Maintenance Operations Center, Radio Shop, and other leased facilities.

The study was undertaken with several objectives, including:

• Use funds and assets wisely in a manner that provides both for the long-term and the short-term economic and fiscal health, as well as the needs of the County
• Leverage under-utilized County properties and planned investments to meet all needs through comprehensive planning
• Make decisions that take into consideration the ability to satisfy (1) functional needs on a long-term basis; (2) land use relevancy; (3) efficiencies and synergies through co-location of related uses; and (4) the ability to achieve multiple policy objectives:
• Invest resources that in a site or program of sites that can meet current and future needs
• Address needs that cannot be met at current sites
• Create efficiencies and synergies through campus-type settings
• Better land-use decisions - The County is at a crossroads where major investments are needed at public facilities that were sited decades ago. Many of these sites no longer make sense, given changes in the County
• Move agencies from leased properties to County-owned properties, reducing leasing costs

Resources:

• Presentation to Town of Washington Grove on 8/1/11