The Montgomery County Council is currently considering the White Flint Sector Plan, recommended by the Montgomery County Planning Board.
Among the plan’s goals:
--create thriving, diverse mixed use center with highest intensity closest to Metro and along Rockville Pike;
--create new parks and open spaces ;
--transform Rockville Pike into a boulevard with a landscape median, street trees and improved crosswalks;
--develop a transportation network that includes a grid of new public streets;
--improve the pedestrian and bicycling environment;
--promote sustainable development;
--create new public facilities;
--provide affordable housing; and
--promote innovative ways to finance and manage new infrastructure.
The County Council is receiving public testimony at two public hearings--Tuesday, October 20, 2009 and Thursday, October 22, 2009.
More information on the White Flint Sector Plan can be found at http://www.montgomeryplanning.org/community/whiteflint/
Please email your comments about the White Flint Sector Plan to my office: Councilmember.Trachtenberg.montgomerycountymd.gov
As a resident of the area, I am pleased to see your positive post about the White Flint Sector Plan. We are looking forward to changes and believe that the Sector Plan is actually the solution to traffic in the area. Give us opportunities to walk or take public transit and we will. As it stands today, we have to get in our cars to go anywhere and add to the traffic on the Pike. We support the vision of the Pike with the center transit-way and see the design as a progressive and beneficial plan to the area. I hope that you and the other council members pass the plan soon so that we can begin to see our area become a real community.
ReplyDeleteThank you!