Silver Spring, MD – At approximately 5
p.m. Thursday, July 12, the Montgomery County Planning Board will
re-consider the Silver Spring Transit Center, a proposed hub for Metro
trains, buses, taxis and bicycles in the community’s downtown.
The Board first considered the transit center, slated for Colesville Road and
Wayne Avenue at the site of the existing Silver Spring Metro station, in early
June in a mandatory referral hearing. The mandatory referral process requires
the Planning Board and its professional planning staff to review and make
recommendations about such issues as safety, design and architectural
treatments for public works projects.
A second part of the review by the Board, which is part of the
Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, involves parkland owned
by the agency on the transit center site. To that end, the Board asked its
parks and planning department staff to work with the county Department of
Public Works and Transportation and the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit
Authority to develop an agreement to exchange an existing hard-surface open
space called Metro Urban Park for two new parks – one at the transit entrance,
the other across Wayne Avenue from the center. On Thursday, the Board will
consider that agreement.
WHO: Montgomery County Planning Board
WHAT: Consideration of Silver Spring Transit Center
WHEN: Thursday, July 12, 2007 – approximately 5 p.m.
WHERE: Park and Planning Headquarters
8787 Georgia Ave.
Silver Spring, MD 20910
For more information, contact Valerie Berton, (301) 495-4602.