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Thursday, April 7, 2016

REVISED: Thursday, March 31, 2016 - 3:50 pm

Please note - Agenda changes and testimony rules:

The Planning Board’s Agenda is subject to change and certain items may be postponed or added. For meeting updates or to view the Planning Board proceedings live on our website, visit www.montgomeryplanningboard.org.
The Planning Board encourages public testimony unless otherwise noted on the agenda. Refer to the Planning Board Rules of Procedure for more information on public testimony. Any individual or organization may submit a written statement for consideration by the Planning Board. Written comments must be received in the Chair’s office at least 24 hours in advance of the Planning Board hearing date, referencing the hearing date and item, to be reviewed by the Board and included in the official record of the hearing. Written comments received within 24 hours before a hearing date will be placed in the file, but will not be considered by the Planning Board or included in the official record. Comments should be transmitted via e-mail to MCP-Chair@mncppc-mc.org, faxed to Chair Casey Anderson at 301-495-1320, or addressed to: Casey Anderson, Chair, Montgomery County Planning Board, 8787 Georgia Avenue, Silver Spring, Maryland 20910.
To testify on an agenda item, sign-up online or call 301-495-4605 before 4:00 p.m. the day before the meeting. On the day of the meeting, please see the Clerk in the Board Auditorium to sign-up. Where noted on the agenda, advance sign-up may be required and signing up to speak on the day of the hearing may not be permitted. Submission of written comments does not constitute signing up to speak. Copies of written testimony will not be accepted by the Clerk or distributed to the Board at hearings.

To learn more, see the About section at the end of this document:

9:00 AM	PLANNING BOARD MEETING	MRO AUDITORIUM
Item 1	Consent Agenda
	*A. Adoption of Resolutions
	*B. Record Plats
	Subdivision Plat No. 220120220, Fairhill AR zone; 1 lot; located on the west side of Ripplemead Drive approximately 1500 feet north of the intersection of Riggs Road; Olney Master Plan.	Planning Board Action/Decision: Approved.
	Subdivision Plat No. 220130590, Thomas Discovery AR zone; 2 lots; located on the west side of Sugarland Road, approximately 2,000 feet south of Whites Ferry Road (MD 107); Agriculture and Rural Open Space Master Plan.	Planning Board Action/Decision: Approved.
	Subdivision Plat No. 220150870, 220150880 and 220150920, Garnkirk Farms PD-11 zone; 55 lots and 3 parcels; located immediately north of the intersection of Tate Street and	Planning Board Action/Decision: Approved.
	Subdivision Plat No. 220151280, Gertson Property RC zone; 1 parcel; located approximately 275 feet west of the intersection of Kruhm Road and Belle Cote Drive; Fairland Master Plan.	Planning Board Action/Decision: Approved.
	*C. Other Consent Items
	*D. Approval of Minutes
	Minutes of March 24, 2016	Planning Board Action/Decision: Approved.
Item 2	Roundtable Discussion Parks Director's Report	Planning Board Action/Decision: Discussion.
Item 3	Montgomery Parks Fee Increases Montgomery Parks’ Enterprise, HFEE and PACP Divisions are recommending fee increases due to operational costs, including transaction fees from ActiveMontgomery and the increase in minimum wage. K. Williams/C. Turnbull/D. Vismara	Planning Board Action/Decision: Approved.
Item 4	Olney Manor Recreational Park Resolution recommending the purchase of 10.36 acres, more or less, unimproved, from the Graefe Family Trust, located at 3101 Emory Church Road, Olney, MD 20832, by Montgomery County, Maryland as an addition to Olney Manor Recreational Park. ~~Authorization to acquire one (1) parcel of land containing 10.36 acres, more or less, unimproved, from the Graefe Family Trust, located at 3101 Emory Church Road, Olney, MD 20832.~~ J. Kaye	Planning Board Action/Decision: Approved.
Item 5	Montgomery Village Master Plan Sectional Map Amendment Request permission to file a Sectional Map Amendment to implement the recommendations of the Approved and Adopted Montgomery Village Master Plan R. Kamen	Planning Board Action/Decision: Approved to File.
Item 6	Corrective Map Amendment H-111 Request to authorize staff to submit Corrective Map Amendment H-111 with District Council, pursuant to Section 59.7.2.2, in order to correct a technical error that lead to an inaccurate depiction of the zoning boundary and zoning classification for 8015 Old Georgetown Road on the official zoning maps; with a Planning Board recommendation of approval R. Kamen	Planning Board Action/Decision: Approved to File with Planning Board Recommendation.
Item *7	Armstrong Property, No. 120160070: Preliminary Plan Preliminary Plan No. 120160070: Application to create 55 lots for 47 one-family attached dwellings (townhomes) and 8 one-family detached dwellings (including 6 total MPDUs), a parcel for private streets and parcels for open space, located on the south side of Lewis Lane, approximately 500 feet west of the intersection with High Corner Street; 8.17 acres, Zoned CRT 1.0, C-0.5, R-0.5, H-55T; 2006 Damascus Master Plan. B. Berbert	Planning Board Action/Decision: Approved with Conditions.
Item 8	Briefing on Montgomery County’s Building Lot Termination Program K.Reynolds/F.Boyd	Planning Board Action/Decision: Briefing No Vote Taken.
12:40 pm	LUNCH

2:00 PM	PLANNING BOARD MEETING CONTINUES	MRO AUDITORIUM
Item 9	Bethesda Downtown Sector Plan - Worksession #10 ATTACHMENT - Bethesda Downtown Plan Correspondence Public participation at work sessions is at the discretion of the Chair. If you would like to speak at a Planning Board work session, please send a written request to speak along with a description of the subject you wish to address at least 24 hours in advance of the hearing date to mcp-chair@mncppc-mc.org. L. Howerton	Planning Board Action/Decision: No Vote Taken.
5:00 pm	DINNER

6:30 pm	PLANNING BOARD MEETING CONTINUES	MRO AUDITORIUM
Item 10	Maydale Nature Center The purposes of this item are to brief the Planning Board on the status of the Maydale Nature Center project, to present a recommendation for going forward, to describe the functional and financial analyses underlying that recommendation, and to obtain direction from the Board as to the next steps to be taken. D. Hertz	Planning Board Action/Decision: No Vote Taken.
7:30 pm	ADJOURN

About the meetings:

The Planning Board’s Agenda is subject to change and certain items may be postponed or added. For meeting updates or to view the Planning Board proceedings live on our website, visit www.montgomeryplanningboard.org.
The Planning Board encourages public testimony unless otherwise noted on the agenda. Refer to the Planning Board Rules of Procedure for more information on public testimony. Any individual or organization may submit a written statement for consideration by the Planning Board. Written comments must be received in the Chair’s office at least 24 hours in advance of the Planning Board hearing date, referencing the hearing date and item, to be reviewed by the Board and included in the official record of the hearing. Written comments received within 24 hours before a hearing date will be placed in the file, but will not be considered by the Planning Board or included in the official record. Comments should be transmitted via e-mail to MCP-Chair@mncppc-mc.org, faxed to Chair Casey Anderson at 301-495-1320, or addressed to: Casey Anderson, Chair, Montgomery County Planning Board, 8787 Georgia Avenue, Silver Spring, Maryland 20910.
To testify on an agenda item, sign-up online or call 301-495-4605 before 4:00 p.m. the day before the meeting. On the day of the meeting, please see the Clerk in the Board Auditorium to sign-up. Where noted on the agenda, advance sign-up may be required and signing up to speak on the day of the hearing may not be permitted. Submission of written comments does not constitute signing up to speak. Copies of written testimony will not be accepted by the Clerk or distributed to the Board at hearings.
Unless otherwise noted, Planning Board meetings are held on Thursdays and begin at 9:00 a.m. The agenda is subject to change and certain items may be postponed or added.
Copies of testimony presented orally or copies of correspondence will not be distributed at the hearing.
Occasionally due to time constraints, the Planning Board may limit the total amount of time dedicated to public testimony. Public testimony may not be taken for items identified as Briefings, Worksessions and/or Roundtables. On other occasions when no public testimony will be taken, the agenda will specify.
View the Planning Board proceedings live on our website for meeting updates: www.montgomeryplanningboard.org.
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The Planning Board makes the final decision on any agenda items with an (*). On such matters, Maryland law and the Planning Board’s Rules of Procedure prohibit any member of the public from directly contacting or communicating with Board members outside the public hearing setting. See the Outside Communications section of the Planning Board Rules of Procedure for more information.
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Thursday, April 7, 2016

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