The Montgomery County Planning Board Agenda- REVISED

Thursday, April 5, 2007

Last updated: April 4 at 5:00 P.M.

8787 Georgia Avenue
Silver Spring, MD 20910-3760
301-495-4600
www.montgomeryplanningboard.org

Civic/Homeowners Association Database

Effective immediately, management of the Civic/Homeowners Association Database is being returned to the Community Outreach and Media Relations Office. Arnita Jackson will now manage the database.

Should you have questions regarding the database, i.e., place an order for a civic association list, add a new organization to the database, update or make changes to an existing group, please call Arnita at 301-495-4600 or email her at arnita.Jackson@mncppc-mc.org.

Thanks for your continued support in providing us with information that helps us keep our database current. Keeping our database updated, provides us with a greater opportunity to notify Montgomery County residents and businesses of proposed changes, development and meetings that will impact their communities.

The public is invited to join the Montgomery County Planning Board throughout the spring to hear a diverse slate of planning experts speak about ways to guide growth while maintaining a vibrant economy and protecting the county’s unique natural resources.

The growth management speaker series will inform the Planning Board and planning staff as they update the county’s key growth policy, (also referred to as the Adequate Public Facilities Ordinance), which directs growth to areas with the right level of roads, schools and other public amenities. The growth policy will ultimately be reviewed and voted on by the County Council.

As Montgomery County emerges as an economic power center in the state, public officials and planners are working to retain high levels of public service and our historically high quality of life.

The series hosts nationally known experts who will lend insight into such issues as balancing growth and public services; fostering high-quality communities; developing vibrant urban areas and creating pedestrian-friendly environments; among other subjects. See below for information about the speakers, who will address the Planning Board on the dates specified below. For more information and to view online videotapes of the speeches, go to www.montgomeryplanningboard.org/planning/growth.

April 12, 1 p.m.: Robert Gibbs, a pioneer in reviving the community-oriented principles of traditional town planning and smart growth, will share his perspectives regarding the linkage between growth management and neighborhood planning.

April 26, 4 p.m.: James Murley, Director of the Catanese Center for Urban and Environmental Solutions at Florida Atlantic University, is former Secretary of the Florida Department of Community Affairs and Executive Director of 1000 Friends of Florida. Murley will cover “Growth Management Efforts and Strategies in Florida – Past, Present and Future.”

May 3, 1 p.m.: Richard Heapes, founder and principal of Street-Works, a mixed-use development and consulting firm headquartered in New York, is nationally recognized for creating great urban places. Heapes recently led a $180-million mixed-use development in suburban West Hartford, Connecticut.

May 17, 7 p.m.: Robert Hunter is president-elect of the American Planning Association and serves as the executive director of the Hillsborough City-County Planning Commission in Tampa, Fla. Hunter will address “Growth: Who Pays and Who Plays?”

May 24, 7 p.m.: Alexander von Hoffman, Senior Research Fellow at the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University, has authored three books on urban revival and is now writing a history of low-income housing politics and policy. Von Hoffman will address “Urban Planning in the Age of Sprawl: Thoughts on the Past and Future of American Metropolitan Growth.” His presentation will focus, in part, on growth management case studies, including Montgomery, Loudoun and Fairfax counties.

June 6, 7 p.m.: Edward “Ned” Hill, Professor and Distinguished Scholar of Economic Development at the Maxine Levin College of Urban Affairs, Cleveland State University, is also a Senior Fellow in the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution. Hill edited Economic Development Quarterly from 1994 to 2005. Hill’s topic will be announced.

June 7, 7 p.m. : Ed McMahon, who holds the Charles Fraser Chair on Sustainable Development at the Urban Land Institute, is nationally known as a leading authority on sustainable development, land conservation, urban design and historic preservation. McMahon will address “The Dollars and Sense of Responsive Design.”

June 14, 7 p.m. : Michael Freedman, principal and founder of an urban design firm in San Francisco, specializes in infill development, master plans, corridor redevelopment, design guidelines and open space planning. Freedman will address “The Strategy of Superior Infill by Guiding Growth and Change with Effective Regulatory and Capital Improvement Tools.”

June 219:15 a.m. : Peter Park, Director of Denver’s Community Planning and Development Department, specializes in innovative community and building design solutions.

7 p.m. June 21: Gordon Price, Director of the City Program at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia, and a professor in the School of Community and Regional Planning at the University of British Columbia, has written extensively on Vancouver and transportation and land use issues. Price will discuss “The Vancouver Recipe: How to Increase Density and Reduce Fat.”

Except for the June 6 presentation, the growth management speaker series will take place during regularly scheduled Planning Board meetings held on Thursdays at 8787 Georgia Avenue, Silver Spring. Additional speakers may be added in the coming weeks and the current schedule may change. For the latest on the speaker series, call (301) 495-4600 or go to www.montgomeryplanningboard.org/planning/growth.

Planning Board Seeks Public Comment on
Water and Sewer Category Change Requests

The Planning Board will hear testimony and consider recommendations on Thursday, April 12, 2007, for several water and sewer category changes, recommending that water and/or sewer service be extended (or denied) to individual properties for the cases listed below. The Planning Board’s recommendations will be sent to the County Executive.

The County Executive will then hold an additional public hearing on April 25, 2007 at 2:00 pm. The following cases are currently being considered:

Go to the Planning Board’s website after April 2, 2007 for the staff report and the position on the agenda. Written comments are also welcomed prior to the April 12, 2007 Planning Board Hearing and should be addressed to: Royce Hanson, Chairman, Montgomery County Planning Board, 8787 Georgia Avenue, Silver Spring, MD 20910, or sent via e-mail.

Planning Board staff contact for questions: Mary Dolan at 301-495-4552 or by e-mail.

For additional updated information and maps for each request, see the Department of Environmental Protection’s (DEP’s) website, “Water Supply and Wastewater;” or call DEP (240-777-7700).