Monthly Archives: June 2009
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The White Flint Partnership is a group of large property owners in White Flint. In a letter to the Montgomery County Planning Board today, the Partnership recommended a set of changes in the Draft White Flint Plan. The text of the changes and cover notes are:
Dear Chairman Hanson,
On behalf of the White Flint Partnership I would like to submit the following email with some minor final comments in regards to the White Flint Sector Plan Staff Draft. Thank you very much for the amount of time and effort you and the other Planning Board members have put into the White Flint Sector Plan. The revised draft is the culmination of over 3 years of work and the first step towards creating a new model for development in Montgomery County. Below is an email which we sent to Piera Weiss outlining some final modifications we hope the Planning Board will consider before final adoption of the plan. We appreciate all of your work to date and look forward to working with you in the coming months as the Sector Plan is introduced to the County Executive and County Council.…
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At its meeting last night, the Friends of White Flint Board of Directors reviewed the staff draft of the White Flint Sector Plan to be discussed by the Montgomery County Planning Board at its June 18, 2009 meeting. The Board discussed several issues with the draft Plan, especially the section on implementation and staging of capital and transportation improvements, which will be the subject of much attention by the Planning Board on Thursday.…
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Before diving into the new draft Final White Flint Plan, a few words about the scheduled Planning Board worksession on Thursday, June 18: the Planning Board will likely not take up the final draft until after it resolves a number of questions remaining from the June 4 worksession on implementation and staging.…
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The Montgomery County Planning Board is scheduled to consider the final staff draft of the White Flint Sector Plan in worksessions beginning on Thursday, June 18, 2009. Today the draft was released.
The cover memo appears here:
http://www.montgomeryplanningboard.org/agenda/2009/documents/20090618whitememo.pdf
The staff final draft is in several parts (it’s a big file):
Part 1: http://www.montgomeryplanningboard.org/agenda/2009/documents/whitepart1.pdf
Part 2: http://www.montgomeryplanningboard.org/agenda/2009/documents/whitepart2.pdf
Part 3: http://www.montgomeryplanningboard.org/agenda/2009/documents/whitepart3.pdf
Part 4: http://www.montgomeryplanningboard.org/agenda/2009/documents/whitepart4.pdf
Part 5: http://www.montgomeryplanningboard.org/agenda/2009/documents/whitepart5.pdf
I’ll post a quick analysis in a bit.…
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Friends of White Flint has consciously modelled itself on nearby community organizations in Rosslyn and Clarendon, revitalized parts of Arlington County, Virginia. Now a new resident of Arlington County has made a parody rap video about his new home, featured in today’s Washington Post:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4T1RMuoQnKo
The Post article:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/12/AR2009061203833.html?sub=AR…
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Fourth in a series of posts discussing what I expect to see in the upcoming final Draft White Flint Sector Plan, scheduled to be delivered to the Montgomery County Planning Board on June 18. These are not official Friends of White Flint positions, just my musings. This post deals with transportation issues, and in particular, what to do about Rockville Pike.…
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Several newspapers are reporting that the most recent schools report has found that several schools in Montgomery County face overcrowding conditions in 2014. County law requires a moratorium on residential construction in areas served by severely over-crowded schools. The Planning Board has imposed such a moratorium in some areas in the County.…
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The Board of Directors of Friends of White Flint is pleased to announce that Michael L. Springer has been elected to a Business Class seat on the Board. Springer is the representative to FoWF of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and has been very active in the White Flint Sector Plan development process.…
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Third in a series of posts discussing what I expect to see in the upcoming final Draft White Flint Sector Plan, scheduled to be delivered to the Montgomery County Planning Board on June 18. These are not official Friends of White Flint positions, just my musings. This post deals with density and heights.…
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The Montgomery County Planning Board is scheduled to receive the final Draft White Flint Sector Plan on June 18. The Board will then spend several weeks reviewing and revising the draft Plan, before approving a plan and recommending it for passage by the County Council. Final Planning Board action on the Plan is anticipated by the end of July and as early as July 9, 2009.…
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