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9:00 AM	PLANNING BOARD MEETING - MRO AUDITORIUM
	For more details about the Planning Board’s action on any item, you may link to the videotaped hearing after noon on the day following the meeting and select the item you wish to hear.
item 1	Consent Agenda
	*A. Adoption of Resolutions
	1. North Bethesda Gateway, Sketch Plan No. 32011002A Planning Board Action/Decision: Adopted. 2. Estates at Greenbriar Preserve, Site Plan No. 82003029E Planning Board Action/Decision: Adopted. 3. Pike & Rose (Mid Pike Plaza), Preliminary Plan No. 12012002A Planning Board Action/Decision: Adopted. 4. Pike & Rose – Phase II, Site Plan No. 820130120 Planning Board Action/Decision: Adopted.

	*B. Record Plats
	Subdivision Plat No. 220131540, Chevy Chase Park R-60 zone; 1 lot; located on the north side of Leland Street, 550 feet east of Oak Lane; Bethesda-Chevy Chase Master Plan. Planning Board Action/Decision: Approved.

	*C. Other Consent Items
	1. Glenmont Metrocenter, Preliminary Plan No. 120130080 Planning Board Action/Decision: Approved.

	*D. Approval of Minutes
	Minutes of September 12, 2013 Planning Board Action/Decision: Approved.

Item 2	Roundtable Discussion -TIME CHANGED
	A. Planning Director’s Report Planning Board Action/Decision: Discussion.

Item *3	The Blairs Master Plan - TIME CHANGED
E. Grayson	Project Plan Review No. 920130050, The Blairs Master Plan, CBD-R2, 30.37 acres, 450,000 square feet of commercial development including a 125,000 square foot hotel, 203,045 square feet of office, 3,045 square feet of which is existing, 121,955 square feet of retail and 2,800 multi-family residential units, of which 1,110 units are existing; located on Blair Mill Road, approximately 551 east of Eastern Avenue, Silver Spring CBD Staff Recommendation: Approval with Conditions Preliminary Plan Review No. 120130220, The Blairs Master Plan, CBD-R2, 30.37 acres, 1 lot for 450,000 square feet of commercial development including a 125,000 square foot hotel, 203,045 square feet of office, 3,045 square feet of which is existing, 121,955 square feet of retail and 2,800 multi-family residential units, of which 1,110 units are existing; located on Blair Mill Road, approximately 551 east of Eastern Avenue, Silver Spring CBD Staff Recommendation: Approval with Conditions

12:00 NOON	LUNCH

Item 4	Closed Session
	Pursuant to State Government Article Annotated Code of Maryland 10-508(a)(3) to consider the acquisition of real property for a Commission purpose and matters directly related thereto

1:00 pm	PLANNING BOARD MEETING CONTINUES - MRO AUDITORIUM

Item 5	Rock Creek Trail Signage Project - TIME CHANGED
L. Bonney	The Rock Creek Trail Signage Project is comprised of two main parts: Part 1 includes development of plans for improving trail signage along the Rock Creek Hiker-Biker Trail, including adjacent neighborhood trail connectors. Part 2 includes development of a Trail Signage Design Manual that will be used as a standard for future hard surface trail signage in Montgomery Parks. Staff Recommendation: Discussion

Item *6	Gables White Flint - TIME CHANGED
N. Yearwood	A. Sketch Plan No. 320130010 Redevelopment of two surface parking lots and a segment of Executive Boulevard to be abandoned with a maximum of 521,000 square feet of mixed use development in three buildings in the CR3 C1.5 R2.5 H70 and CR4 C2.0 R3.5 H250 zones; at the intersection of Old Georgetown Road (MD 187) and Executive Boulevard adjoining Wall Local Park and the Kennedy-Shriver Aquatics Center; 5.21 gross acres; White Flint Sector Plan area. Staff Recommendation: Approval with Conditions and Adoption of Resolutions

Item *7	Preliminary Plan 120130090: Goshen Heritage - TIME CHANGED
B. Berbert	Request to resubdivide to create four lots located on the west side of Goshen School Road approximately 1,800 feet north of the intersection with Huntmaster Road, 11.76 acres, RE-2 Zone, Preservation of Agriculture & Rural Open Space Master Plan Staff Recommendation: Approval with Conditions and Adoption of Resolutions

Item *8	Preliminary Plan Amendment 11991094A: Bradley Farms, Lot 26 (In Response to a ViolatioN - TIME CHANGED
J. Penn	Modify the Category I Conservation Easement on the property located at 9224 Inglewood Drive, 2.71 acres, RE-2 Zone, Potomac Master Plan Staff recommendation: Approval with Conditions and Adoption of Resolutions

Item 9	Chevy Chase Lake Sectional Map Amendment - TIME CHANGED
E. Hisel-McCoy/V. Lazdins	Recommendation: Approve request to file Sectional Map Amendment

Item *10	DANAC Stiles Property - TIME CHANGED
P. Butler	A. Preliminary Plan 11996112B, DANAC Stiles Property Request to remove an old transitway easement that is no longer required across approximately 0.8 acres of the Subject Property and allow for replatting of Lots 4 and 5 to incorporate that area previously encumbered by the easement; located on approximately 30.7 acres of land in the CR Zone in the northwest quadrant of the intersection of Diamondback Drive and Key West Avenue within the GSSC Master Plan area. Recommendation: Approval with Conditions B. Site Plan 82000018E, DANAC Stiles Property Request to amend the Final Forest Conservation Plan (FFCP) to add the approximately 0.8 acre area encumbered by the transitway easement to the net tract area of the FFCP, for purposes of recalculating the planting requirement; ; zoned CR in the northwest quadrant of the intersection of Diamondback Drive and Key West Avenue within the GSSC Master Plan area. Recommendation: Approval with Conditions

5:05 PM	DINNER

6:15 PM	PLANNING BOARD MEETING CONTINUES - MRO AUDITORIUM

Item 11	Clarksburg Limited Master Plan for the Ten Mile Creek Watershed, Review of Proposed Planning Board Draft
V. Lazdins/M. Dolan	Staff Recommendation: Approve Planning Board Draft and Transmit to County Executive and County Council ATTACHMENT 1 - Red-Lined copy of Public Hearing Draft Plan ATTACHMENT 2 - Revised Summary of Testimony with Staff Responses and Board actions to date ATTACHMENT 3 - Revised Appendix 2 Description of Modeling Scenarios and Assumptions ATTACHMENT 4 - Revised Memo from Transportation Consultant to include Highway Capacity Manual analysis ATTACHMENT 5 - Consultant responses to technical issues raised in the testimony about the analysis conducted

9:30 pm	ADJOURN

The Montgomery County Planning Board Agenda

Thursday, October 24, 2013

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