Monthly Archives: September 2009
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Friends of White Flint is primarily a public education organization, promoting the philosophy of New Urbanism: walkable, sustainable, engaging communities. Part of our outreach effort is sponsoring a series of speakers to discuss urban planning and design topics.
Our most recent Speakers’ Series event featured Chris Zimmerman, from the Arlington County Board and then the Chair of Metro, discussing Arlington’s journey from traffic-clogged, parking-lot covered strip-mall suburb, to a hub of smart growth-oriented economic activity clustered around Metro.…
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Thousands of Montgomery County residents have learned about, and participated in, the White Flint planning effort. Last year, after the final report from the Planning Board’s White Flint Advisory Group, the Planning Board established a new, smaller White Flint Steering Committee to participate in the worksessions on the Plan. (You can see lots of posts about the Steering Committee and the worksessions in earlier posts on the FLOG; you can use the “search” box on the right to locate these posts.)
Almost all members of the White Flint Steering Committee have now signed a letter to the County Executive and Council supporting the White Flint Sector Plan.…
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Let’s think a moment, shall we? What is it that White Flint really needs? What doesn’t it have enough of that we should expect government agencies to provide for us without our even asking?
I thought about this as I was driving southbound on Rockville Pike early on Sunday morning. This, by the way, is one of the weekends to avoid the intersection of Rockville Pike and Montrose/Randolph Road; SHA is opening the new Montrose Parkway underpass this week, and traffic is an absolute MESS.…
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The Montgomery County Council will hold a public hearing on the White Flint Sector Plan on October 20, rather than the previously scheduled Nov. 3. On the agenda for the same day is Council consideration of the new Commercial/Residential Zone, which will be used in the White Flint area.
Barnaby Zall…
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I have been asked for extra copies of the outreach flyer for the Sept. 23 White Flint Town Hall meeting. Please feel free to circulate and post these flyers. The Town Hall is free and open to all. More details available at our special web site: www.townhall.whiteflint.org.
White Flint Town Hall Flyer
Barnaby Zall…
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In preparation for the upcoming Sept. 23 White Flint Town Hall meeting, Friends of White Flint is preparing new educational and outreach materials. Here is a new short piece summarizing the elements of the White Flint Sector Plan, taken from the text and pictures of the Plan itself. Comments welcome.
Summary of White Flint Sector Plan
Barnaby Zall…
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In an otherwise unremarkable biographical sketch of county Regional Services Director Ken Hartman (whose purview includes White Flint), Gazette reporter Bradford Pearson recites some of the myriad controversies Hartman faces these days. Prominent on the list is:
“the forever-looming debate on the White Flint Sector Plan.”
Ah, so it isn’t just me that feels that way?…
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The White Flint Community Coalition, a group of residents opposed to the White Flint Sector Plan’s impact on the county’s Annual Growth Policy, has a new web site:
www.whiteflintcommunity.org.
The one-page site lists nine concerns such as no dedicated funding mechanism for White Flint improvements, no plan to increase Metro resources, and possible school redistricting.…
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Randolph Hills is the largest community near White Flint, just to the east of the Sector, across the railroad tracks. For many years, the low- and moderate-income community languished in the shadow of stronger, more active neighbors to the south and west. But a few years ago, a new group of civic leaders began forging a new community spirit, leading to positions in the White Flint Advisory Group and Friends of White Flint.…
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The Gazette‘s beat reporter for White Flint, Jen Beasley, has an article out this week on the upcoming Montgomery County Council’s busy agenda for the next few weeks: the Commercial/Residential Zone, an incentive-based attempt to encourage mixed-use development; the West Gaithersburg master plan, including the new Science City biotech haven; the newly-announced Kensington Master Plan; and, of course, the White Flint Sector Plan.…
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