Public Hearing to take place May 24, at *9:00 a.m. at Montgomery Regional Office, 8787 Georgia Avenue, Silver Spring, MD 20910
*Time subject to change: Visit www.MontgomeryPlanningBoard.org/agenda/ for updates
SILVER SPRING, MD –The M-NCPPC Montgomery Planning Board invites the public to provide testimony (limited to three minutes) at a public hearing on the draft 2012 Parks, Recreation, and Open Space (PROS) Plan Update. The hearing will take place:
Thursday, May 24 at 9:00 AM
M-NCPPC Montgomery Regional Office
8787 Georgia Avenue
Silver Spring, MD 20912
The time of the meeting is subject to change. Updates will be posted at www.MontgomeryPlanningBoard.org/agenda/ where members of the public can also download the staff report, sign up to testify and listen to the live public hearing. Sign up to testify at www.montgomeryapps.org/planning_board/testify.asp. (select May 24 from the date pull down menu) or call 301-495-4600. Online sign-up closes 4 p.m. the day prior to the meeting.
Written testimony may be emailed to mcp-chair@mncppc-mc.org or mailed to Planning Board Chairman, 8787 Georgia Avenue, Silver Spring, MD 20910 and must be received 24 hours in advance of the meeting.
The 2012 PROS Plan is developed to analyze and prepare for future needs for park and recreation facilities and natural and history resource preservation, and develop specific service delivery strategies to meet these needs. The 2012 plan will include chapters on: Recreation and Parks, Natural Resource Conservation, Historic and Cultural Resources Preservation and Agricultural Land Preservation.
The 2012 PROS Plan Update is required under State law, and will build on earlier public comments and findings from the Vision 2030 Strategic Plan, finalized by M-NCPPC- Montgomery Parks and the Montgomery County Recreation Department in 2011.
Questions and written comments regarding the 2012 PROS Plan Update should be sent to MCP-PROSPlan2012@MontgomeryParks.org
M-NCPPC-Montgomery Parks, manages more than 35,000 acres of parkland, consisting of 416 parks. Montgomery Parks is part of the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission (M-NCPPC), a bi-county agency established in 1927 to steward public land. The M-NCPPC has been nationally recognized for its high quality parks and recreation services and is regarded as a national model by other parks systems. www.montgomeryparks.org
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