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Join us for a DC – MoCo happy hour April 8 in Friendship Heights!
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Latest Happenings
VICTORY! M-83 Highway is Removed from Montgomery County Plans
Advocates spanning the generations celebrate our win at the Council Office Building on Tuesday, July 29! On Tuesday, the County Council voted 10-1 to remove the unbuilt portion of Mid-County Highway Extended (M-83) from county plans. This was a victory decades in the making! Left on the books since the 1960s but
Fault Lines Screening with Post-film Panel and Social Hour
We invite you to an exclusive screening of the groundbreaking documentary, “Fault Lines,” followed by an expert panel discussion with regional leaders and a social hour to continue the conversation.
CSG in the News: County Council votes to abandon M-83 highway plan
July 29, 2025 | Ginny Bixby | Bethesda Magazine An advocacy group that lobbied against the highway plan praised the council’s decision Tuesday in a press release. “Plans for M-83 were based on obsolete planning assumptions that are out of sync with what we know today about effectively meeting transportation
RELEASE: Montgomery County Council votes to remove the unbuilt northern portion of the M-83 highway from Master Plan
The Montgomery County Council voted today to remove the unbuilt northern portion of M-83 from the Master Plan of Highways and Transitways, a move strongly supported by the Coalition for Smarter Growth and local leaders in the TAME Coalition.
CSG in the News: Does D.C. have the worst traffic? Not so fast.
July 26, 2025 | Rachel Weiner and John D. Harden | The Washington Post “It’s not news that a successful metropolitan region like the D.C. region has a lot of traffic,” said Stewart Schwartz of the Coalition for Smarter Growth, a nonprofit that advocates denser urban areas with less need to drive.
