SILVER SPRING, MD – Continuing its plan to create lively
centers along the MD 355/I-270 corridor, the Montgomery County Planning Board on Thursday
will view staff’s initial recommendations for the White Flint Sector Plan, which
will prescribe the land uses and other strategies to improve the community over
the next 15 years.
Planners
will brief the board on the major recommendations expected to be part of the
staff draft plan, including ways to
stimulate redevelopment that brings more people closer to Metro’s Red Line,
create a system of parks and open spaces, and encourage excellent design,
including changes to Rockville Pike that make it more pedestrian-friendly.
The
White Flint plan will go to the Planning Board late this spring. Learn more about Thursday’s White Flint status report.
A golf course improvements plan (Discussion of Amendments to
Revenue Authority Master Plan concerning golf course improvements of Lake
Needwood, Northwest Branch and Sligo Creek) originally scheduled for the
January 31 meeting has been postponed at the request of the Montgomery County
Revenue Authority (MCRA).
The Revenue Authority originally briefed the Planning Board in
March 2007 on a master plan for integrating the park golf courses, owned by the
Montgomery County Department of Parks, M-NCPPC and operated by MCRA, into a unified
golf system for the county. MCRA was scheduled to share its revised proposal to
the master plan on Thursday, but asked to postpone the discussion to continue
to collect public input on the plan. A future date has yet to be
determined.
WHO:
The Montgomery County Planning Board
WHAT:
Public hearing agenda items
WHEN:
Thursday,
January 31
WHERE:
Park
and Planning Headquarters
8787
Georgia Ave., Silver Spring