Staff Background Materials Available

Posted on June 22, 2009 by Barnaby Zall

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The Montgomery County Planning Board does much of its work on the White Flint Sector Plan in “worksessions” arranged around various topics. Generally, the planning staff prepares background memoranda and materials for the Board to use to prepare for these sessions.

The staff background materials for the June 4 and June 18, 2009 worksessions is now available on-line. Almost all materials are generally available on the White Flint Planning Page: www.whiteflintplanning.org.

The June 4 materials are available here:

http://www.montgomeryplanning.org/community/whiteflint/documents/June4PPpresentation.pdf

http://www.montgomeryplanning.org/community/whiteflint/documents/20090604_Item5.pdf

The June 18 materials, including the staff memo and the PowerPoint presentation (here offered in .pdf format) are available here:

http://www.montgomeryplanning.org/community/whiteflint/documents/20090618whitememo.pdf

http://www.montgomeryplanning.org/community/whiteflint/documents/June18.pdf

Barnaby Zall

My initial thought is what is the big deal? There is only one median opening shown in the rendering, and that will limit the cross traffic conflict, and the only problem would be potential conflicts with right turning vehicles. If this is such a problem, why not only built the road associated with the median opening connecting Woodglen and 355 as a county standard road, and build the other roads as private roads that function more like pedestrian plazas and provide building access but not through vehicle movement. Part of making this urban environment work is breaking up the blocks, and granted redeveloping this site at all does that, but if they can be made smaller, lets go for it! At the very least, I hope the spaces between the buildings can be built as pedestrian plazas with hardscaping, landscaping and to serve the same visual and practical function of having the streets for the pedestrian and bicycle realm.
posted by Gull
Also, why is Foulger-Pratt enabled to keep building in MoCo without having fixed the SSTC out of their own pocket?
posted by Elnigma
That is one UGLY building!
posted by Elnigma
thanks for the update!
posted by kat c
Thanks for reporting about North Bethesda Market II. I've been waiting and searching for nearly a year to hear some update. It was originally supposed to break ground "by the end of 2012," then "early 2013," then "by the end of 2013." At least now I won't be expecting any sort of activity on the site when I drive-by and still see Chili's there. At least FRIT is taking White Flint's redevelopment seriously. They were one of the last developers to propose development, but have overtaken most other developments with their massive Pike and Rose project that begins Phase II next year. What a shocker that the county's tallest and most iconic building is delayed indefinitely though...
posted by cpterp

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Staff Background Materials Available

Posted on June 22, 2009 by Barnaby Zall

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