Accessory Apartments the Subject of Community Meeting
7-9 p.m. Monday, May 21
Park and Planning Headquarters auditorium
8787 Georgia Avenue, Silver Spring
How are accessory apartment units in single-family homes or on single-family properties regulated in Montgomery County?
Planners have proposed new regulations for accessory apartments that would better define attached and detached units, allow some apartments in large-lot residential zones, and restrict them if they exceed a certain size in the …. Read more
Questions have been raised about two teams of surveyors who were recently observed working at the lower intersection of Walhonding Road and Tuscarawas Road. One group was surveying the path to the pool, which in fact is a paper road known as Quarry Road (see map below). The other team was mapping the trees on either side of the entrance to the path and down the lane to
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A Glen Echo Heights resident and student at Pyle Middle School is helping neighbors replace their broken or missing blue recycling bins. If you need one, respond TODAY and you will have a new bin in your hands between May 7th and May 11th.
Follow 3 EASY Steps:
Step 1: Contact me at mbojana@comcast.net to let me know how many recycling bins you want to replace by Thursday May 3rd at 4:00 PM. In your response …. Read more
Many thanks to Adm. Jim Manzelmann for his most constructive engagement with our neighborhoods in reconfiguring the design of Phase 1 of the plan for the ICC-B. Huge improvements have been achieved in plans for traffic, deforestation, stormwater management, and remediation of past stormwater damage.
The current plan can be seen by clicking on this link:
ICCB-NCPC BRIEFING 5-APRIL
Our message to Adm. Manzelmann:
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From: Communities Affected by the Redevelopment of the NGA …. Read more
Subjects covered included:
Aging In Place/Village Concept. The board discussed how to handle a request for funds to help start up an organization in Glen Echo Heights. It would cost approximately $2000 to cover mailing costs and pay insurance. Someone suggested that the group try to raise matching funds. Someone else suggested that the group become incorporated as a non-profit. Funding would be put to a community-wide vote. Nellie and Suzanne will put together a …. Read more
CORPS OF ENGINEERS PRESENTATION ON ICC-B SITE REDEVELOPMENT AT WALDORF SCHOOL, 4800 SANGAMORE RD., 7 PM, THURSDAY, JANUARY 12.
WITH REFERENCE TO THE CONCERNS EXPRESSED BELOW AND TO THE EBLAST SENT OUT TO MULTIPLE COMMUNITIES THIS EVENING, PLEASE LET US HAVE YOUR THOUGHTS. WE’LL SHARE THEM WITH ALL PUBLIC AND PRIVATE PARTIES CONCERNED.
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Our neighborhoods welcome the ICC-B redevelopment project, which will keep …. Read more
A considerable amount of research and study by a team of personnel from different communities has resulted in the following summary of our concerns followed by questions for the Corps of Engineers. We want the development to proceed, but we believe that a temporary pause to address salient issues is more than warranted by the adverse effects of development as currently proposed.
See the link below for the pdf of the memo to the Corps …. Read more
The views provided below are from the Potomac River.
ICC-B Garage and Deforestation as Seen From the River
IDCC-Bethesda – Deforestation
ICC-Bethesda …. Read more
December 1, 2011
The National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) has review authority over master plans for all Federal installations in the Washington Metropolitan region. The Corps of Engineers master plan for redevelopment of the old Defense Mapping Agency site into the Intelligence Community Campus – Bethesda that was presented to Glen Echo Heights and neighboring communities on Tuesday evening, November 29, was then subsequently presented to the NCPC on Thursday, December 1. Several community leaders …. Read more
TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 29TH, 7:00 PM,
THE WALDORF SCHOOL AUDITORIUM
Councilmember Roger Berliner has scheduled and will host a second presentation by the Army Corps of Engineers regarding redevelopment of the NGA site to create the “Intelligence Community Campus – Bethesda” this coming Tuesday, November 29 at 7:00 PM at the Waldorf School. The Corps has been working to address concerns expressed by citizens and community leaders and will present reconfigured …. Read more
