Montgomery County Planning Board and Montgomery County Planning Department have released their June 2026 calendar of events and meetings, a month that mixes formal hearings with neighborhood outreach and a holiday closure. The schedule starts June 2 with the Development Review Committee and runs through a June 19 office shutdown for Juneteenth.

The calendar gives residents several chances to weigh in. The Planning Board meeting on June 4 will be held in person at M-NCPPC Wheaton Headquarters and online, and people can also attend virtually, over the phone or submit written comments on specific agenda items by 12 noon two business days before the meeting. That makes the June 2026 calendar more than a list of dates; it is the public’s road map for when planning decisions will be heard, and how they can still be shaped.

The month opens June 2, when the Development Review Committee meets from 9:30 a.m. to 12 Noon at M-NCPPC Wheaton Headquarters in Wheaton, Maryland. Montgomery Planning staff then take the conversation outdoors on June 3, with a Planners in the Park meet-up from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Hastings Neighborhood Conservation Area gathering spot in Silver Spring, Maryland. Another Planners in the Park event follows on June 6 at the Oakview Trailhead gathering spot in Silver Spring, with staff available from 9 to 9:30 a.m. and a guided hike departing at 9:30 a.m.

That mix of board business and street-level outreach is the point of the schedule. Planning agencies often hold formal meetings far from the day-to-day places people live, but this calendar pushes some of the discussion into parks, a festival and a community center, where the public is likelier to run into staff without filing a formal request first.

The busiest stretch comes in the first half of the month. Staff will be at Taste of Wheaton on June 7 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Marian Fryer Town Plaza in Wheaton, Maryland. The Friendship Heights Sector Plan team will hold an in-person meeting on June 9 starting at 6:30 p.m. at Wisconsin Place Community Recreation Center in Chevy Chase, Maryland. The Historic Preservation Commission meets June 10 at 7 p.m. at M-NCPPC Wheaton Headquarters, with a virtual option available upon request.

There is also a practical wrinkle that matters to anyone trying to follow along. Individual agendas are usually made public 10 days before the start of a meeting, and the Historic Preservation Commission website should be checked for its agenda information. All of the listed events can change, which means the published calendar is a guide, not a guarantee.

The strongest sign of how Montgomery Planning expects the month to unfold is the way it has spread its public-facing work across multiple formats. On one hand, there are routine committee meetings and board sessions. On the other, there are park meet-ups and a festival table that bring staff into places where residents can ask questions without waiting for a hearing. The June 19 closure, observed for Juneteenth, then ends the month with offices shut at a time when planning work is otherwise set to keep moving.

For residents, the answer to the question raised by the June 2026 calendar is straightforward: the key board meeting is June 4, comments on agenda items have to arrive by 12 noon two business days beforehand, and the rest of the month offers multiple in-person chances to catch planning staff before the holiday closure on June 19.