This morning, about 3,000 runners took part in the annual Pike’s Peek 10-K road race from the Shady Grove Metro to White Flint Mall. The speed of some of these guys was amazing.
At the finish line, the runners were greeted by the Friends of White Flint and White Flint Partnership.…
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Several people have commented to me that the FLOG has been a little “slow” recently. I took this to mean that there haven’t been many postings, as opposed to a comment on my mental abilities or on diminishing readership. Actually, on April 23, almost 240 people read the FLOG, a new record.…
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Friends of White Flint is co-sponsoring two upcoming events:
On Sunday morning, April 26, FoWF will be co-sponsoring a booth at the finish line of the Pike’s Peek 10-K road race. The finish will be in the front parking lot of White Flint Mall, and our booth will be open from 8 – 10:30AM.…
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Live blogging from the April 29, 2009, worksession of the Montgomery County Planning Board. Topic is Land Use. Live streaming is available at www.montgomerycountyplanning.org.
New technology providing a composite look at the “end-state” of the Plan and proposed development. Piera Weiss, lead WF planner. Luis. Planning staff. Anything anyone has proposed.…
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Live blogging from April 23, 2009 worksession of the Montgomery County Planning Board. Topic: new commuter rail (MARC) station.
Dan Hardy, transportation wizard and head, Vision Division: Review of MARC section of transportation appendix ( see the staff presentation for today’s meeting). Review of two possible sites: northern on Montouri property across from Harris-Teeter, and southern site, at the end of Nicholson Court, south of Nicholson Lane.…
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Live blogging from April 29, 2009 meeting of the Montgomery County Planning Board. Worksession #7. Topic is land use and redevelopment issues, plus siting a new school and a new commuter rail (MARC) station. Live streaming video is available at www.montgomeryplanningboard.org.
Meeting scheduled for next week with property owners and their attorneys to discuss the new CR zone.…
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Live blogging from the April 23, 2009, meeting of the Montgomery County Planning Board. Streaming video is available at www.montgomeryplanningboard.org.
It’s Bring Your Children to Work Day at the Planning Board. The first three rows of the auditorium are reserved for kids, so they can see what their parents do.…
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Part of the White Flint Sector Plan is the creation of new parks and open spaces in the increasingly urban area. A series of recommendations was included in an early draft of the Plan, but was dropped without explanation in the final Public Hearing Draft. As readers may recall from a series of early posts on the FLOG, I have been working with Planning staff for several weeks on the parks recommendations.…
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The Montgomery County Planning Board does much of its work on the new White Flint Sector Plan in worksessions organized around a specific topic. The next worksession, scheduled for Thursday, April 23, will include a wrap-up of proposals for land use (developers’ and residents’) and decisions on siting a new school and MARC commuter rail station.…
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The largest community association in the White Flint area is Randolph Hills Civic Association. Just east of the White Flint Sector, across the railroad tracks, Randolph Hills has more than 5,000 residents, several times greater than many of the organizations participating in the White Flint Sector Plan process. Yet Randolph Hills is often overlooked in planning processes, since it is lower-income and demographically more diverse than other nearby neighborhoods.…
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