The Montgomery County Planning Board Agenda

Thursday, January 14, 2010

FINAL

Wednesday, January 13, 2010 - 4:00 pm

 

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Silver Spring, MD 20910-3760
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9:00 AM PLANNING BOARD MEETING - (MRO Auditorium)
   
item 1 Consent Agenda
 

*A. Adoption of Resolutions

 

Planning Board Action/Decision: Adopted.

 

1. Yazdi Property Preliminary Plan 120080310 - ADOPTION OF MCPB CORRECTED RESOLUTION No. 09-142

2. Townhouses at Small’s Nursery Preliminary Plan 120070610 – ADOPTION OF MCPB RESOLUTION No. 09-155

3. Fairland Elementary School Addition Special Protection Area Water Quality Plan MR2009707-ADOPTION OF MCPB RESOLUTION No. 09-158

4. Century Technology Campus Preliminary Plan 12002095A – ADOPTION OF MCPB RESOLUTION No. 09-156

5. Century Technology Campus Site Plan 82003007A – ADOPTION OF MCPB RESOLUTION No. 09-157
   
 

*B. Records Plats
S. Smith

Planning Board Action/Decision: Approved.

 

1. Subdivision Plat No. 220062070, Kemp Mill Farms
R-90 zone, 1 parcel; located in the northwest quadrant of the intersection of Kemp Mill Road and Grays Lane; Kemp Mill.

Staff Recommendation: Approval

2. Subdivision Plat No. 220091010, Wildwood Hills
R-200 zone, 1lot; located on the south side of Bells Mill Road, 250 feet east of Coventry Way; Potomac.

Staff Recommendation: Approval

3. Subdivision Plat No. 220100400, West Chevy Chase Heights
R-60 zone, 1 lot; located on the north side of West Virginia Avenue, 350 feet west of Maryland Avenue; Bethesda-Chevy Chase.

Staff Recommendation: Approval
   
  *C. Other Consent Items
   
  *D. Approval of Minutes
 

Minutes of December 3, 2009 meeting

Planning Board Action/Decision: Approved.

   
Item 2 Roundtable Discussion - REVISED

 

A. Status Report of Clarksburg Town Center Site Plan No. 820070220.

Planning Board Action/Decision: Approved.

 

B. Briefing on Executive Regulation 03-09, Agricultural Land Preservation Easement Purchases (BLTs)

Planning Board Action/Decision: Discussion.

 

C. Discussion of FCC Shot Clock and Implications of Cell Tower Applications.

Planning Board Action/Decision: Discussion.

   
Item *3 Preliminary Plan 120090230, Sandy Spring, Parcel B, Goddard School

N. Braunstein

OM zone and Sandy Spring/Ashton Rural Village Overlay; 4.71 acres; 1 lot requested for 72,121 square feet of office use, 12,238 square feet of daycare, and 1,718 square feet of retail use; located in the southwest quadrant of the intersection of Sandy Spring Road (MD 108) and Meeting House Road; Sandy Spring/Ashton.
Staff Recommendation: Approval with Conditions

Planning Board Action/Decision: Approved with conditions.
   
Item *4 Pre-Preliminary Plan 720090140, Rolling Ridge Phase II

E. Grayson

RDT zone; 25 acres; 1 3.8-acre lot requested for 1 one-family detached residential dwelling and a farm-remainder parcel; located on the Brink Road, 2000 feet west of Laytonsville Road (MD 108); Agricultural and Rural Open Space.
Staff Recommendation: Approval with Conditions

Planning Board Action/Decision: Approved with conditions.

   
12:30 pM LUNCH
   
1:30 PM PLANNING BOARD MEETING CONTINUES - MRO AUDITORIUM
   
Item 5 Board of Appeals No. S-2751: Victory Housing, Inc.

E. Tesfaye

Board of Appeals No. S-2751: Victory Housing, Inc, applicant, requests a special exception for housing and related facilities for Senior Adults and persons with disabilities, R-60 Zone; 1600 St. Camillus Drive, Silver Spring

*A. Preliminary Forest Conservation Plan No. S-2751: Victory Housing: Housing and related facilities for senior adults and persons with disabilities.
Staff recommendation: Approval with Conditions

Planning Board Action/Decision: Approved.

B. Special Exception No. S-2751: Victory Housing: Housing and related facilities for senior adults and persons with disabilities.
Staff recommendation: Approval with Conditions

Planning Board Action/Decision: Approved.

(Action required for hearing by the Hearing Examiner on 01/25/10)
   
Item 6 Zoning Text Amendment No. 09-13

G. Russ

Zoning Text Amendment No. 09-13 to amend the TMX Zone section of the Zoning Ordinance to allow any approved development plan, supplementary plan, or site plan to construct subject to the applicable approval; to allow amendments to preliminary plans and site plans approved under any prior zone under certain circumstances and to generally amend the provisions related to regulatory approval before the application of a TMX zone.

Staff Recommendation: Transmit Comments to the County Council

(Action required for County Council public hearing of 1/19/10)
  Planning Board Action/Decision: Approved.
Item 7 Zoning Text Amendment No. 09-14

G. Russ

Zoning Text Amendment No. 09-14 to amend the Zoning Ordinance to amend the dissemination requirements for reports and recommendations from the Hearing Examiner.

Staff Recommendation: Transmit Comments to the County Council

(Action required for County Council public hearing of 1/19/10)
  Planning Board Action/Decision: Approved.
Item 8 Goshen Road from 650 feet south of Girard Street to 1,000 feet north of Warfield Road, CIP No. 509337

J. Penn/L. Cole/M. Pfefferle

*A. Forest Conservation Plan

Staff Recommendation: Approval with Conditions

Planning Board Action/Decision: Approved.

B. Mandatory Referral No. MR2009805

Staff Recommendation: Approval with Comments to MCDOT

Planning Board Action/Decision: Approved.

C. Planning Board Consent to Construct within Conservation Easement
Staff Recommendation: Approval with Conditions

Planning Board Action/Decision: Approved.
   
Item 10 Mid-Cycle Review of School Capacity per the 2009-2011 Growth Policy - ADDITION

P. Dunn

Revised School Test results reflecting the adoption of three CIP amendments increasing school capacity by the County Council on November 25, 2009

Staff Recommendation: Adopt the Mid-Cycle FY2010 School Test Effective 1/01/2010

Planning Board Action/Decision: Approved.
   
item *9 Enforcement Hearing - Site Plan No. 820020270, The Highlands

 

R-200 zone; 1.36 acres; violation of the site plan related to relocation of a stairwell, landscaping, lighting, paving trellis and fencing; located at the northeast intersection of Stringtown Road and MD 355; Clarksburg
   
5:20 PM ADJOURN

 

  
 

 

public notice

Department of Permitting Services, Division of Water Resources Management

has received a PRELIMINARY WATER QUALITY PLAN

for Anselmo Property

The Department of Permitting Services Division of Water Resources Management has received a PRELIMINARY WATER QUALITY PLAN for Anselmo Property. The 42.2 acre site is located at the intersection of Briggs Chaney Road and Rainbow Drive, and is within the Upper Paint Branch Watershed.  The Upper Paint Branch Watershed is a designated Special Protection Area.  The project proposes to subdivide the current parcel into 33 single family detached building lots and five single family attached (townhouse) lots which will serve as MPDU’s, for a total of 38 lots.

 

If you wish to request a public information meeting, a written request must be submitted to this office within 15 days of this notice (Notice posted 12/28/09). The Water Quality Plans are available for review at the Department of Permitting Services office during working hours (8:00am-4:00pm Monday through Friday).

For further information, please call Mark Etheridge at (240) 777-6338. The address for the Department of Permitting Services is:

Department of Permitting Services

Land Development Services, Water Resources

255 Rockville Pike, 2nd Floor

Rockville, Maryland 20850

 

 

public notice

Department of Permitting Services, Division of Land Development Services
has received a PRELIMINARY/FINAL WATER QUALITY PLAN
for
RICKMAN PROPERTY

The Department of Permitting Services Division of Land Development Services has received a PRELIMINARY/FINAL WATER QUALITY PLAN for RICKMAN PROPERTY. This site is located on MD Route 124 between the Lindbergh Drive entrances which is within the Upper Rock Creek Special Protection Area. The proposal for this 6.15 acre site is to remove the existing buildings and construct three new buildings and the associated parking.

 

If you wish to request a public information meeting, a written request must be submitted to this office within 15 days of this notice (Notice posted 1/11/2010). The Water Quality Plans are available for review at the Department of Permitting Services office during working hours (8:00am-4:00pm Monday through Friday).

For further information, please call Leo Galanko at (240) 777-6242. The address for the Department of Permitting Services is:

 

Department of Permitting Services
Land Development Services, Water Resources
255 Rockville Pike, 2nd Floor
Rockville, Maryland 20850

 

public notice

Department of Permitting Services, Division of Land Development Services
has received a PRELIMINARY/FINAL WATER QUALITY PLAN
for
GODDARD SCHOOL

The Department of Permitting Services, Division of Land Development Services has received a PRELIMINARY/FINAL WATER QUALITY PLAN for GODDARD SCHOOL. The proposed development will consist of a day care and after school facility for the Goddard School along with the associated infrastructure. The site is located on MD Route 355, north of West Old Baltimore Road which is within the Clarksburg Protection Area.

 

If you wish to request a public information meeting, a written request must be submitted to this office within 15 days of this notice (Notice posted 1/11/2010). The Water Quality Plans are available for review at the Department of Permitting Services office during working hours (8:00am-4:00pm Monday through Friday).

For further information, please call Leo Galanko at (240) 777-6242. The address for the Department of Permitting Services is:

 

Department of Permitting Services
Land Development Services, Water Resources
255 Rockville Pike, 2nd Floor
Rockville, Maryland 20850