ROCKVILLE, Md., June 28, 2010—The Montgomery County Council at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, June 29, will hold a public hearing on options concerning the specific alignment and approximately station locations of the planned Purple Line. The Purple Line would be an east-west connection of the Bethesda and New Carrollton Metrorail stations.
The Council’s day will start at 9 a.m. with interviews of applicants for the Council’s new Organizational Reform Committee in the Sixth Floor Conference Room of the Council Office Building at 100 Maryland Ave. in Rockville. The Council’s regular general session will begin at 10 a.m. in the Third Floor Hearing Room and will be televised live by County Cable Montgomery (CCM—Cable Channel 6 on Comcast and RCN, Channel 30 on Verizon). It also will be available via streaming through the County Web site at http://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/. It will be rebroadcast on Friday, July 2, at 9 p.m. The interviews with applicants to the reform committee are open to the public, but will not be televised.
The purpose of the Purple Line Functional Plan is to identify the specific alignment and approximate station locations with Montgomery County so that existing and future master plans, and other plans, will have adopted policy guidance in regard to the Purple Line. The Council’s Transportation, Infrastructure, Energy and Environment (PHED) Committee is scheduled to hold a worksession on the Purple Line on July 15. The full Council worksession is tentatively scheduled for July 20.
During its morning session, the Council is scheduled to take action on a resolution to approve reserve and selected fiscal policies and on Bill 36-10 that combined would work toward helping the County achieve a structurally balanced budget where only recurring revenue is used to fund recurring expenses. The actions would help lessen the impact of severe economic problems when the County encounters a severe economic downturn such as the one it has experienced over the past several years.
At 1:30 p.m., the Council will hold five public hearings, including one on the recommendations of the County Charter Review Commission. Another public hearing will address a proposed correction to the Damascus zoning map that would rezone 4.6 acres of land north of the intersection of Kings Valley Road and Kingstead Road in conformance with the Damascus Master Plan. The County Planning Board, at its meeting of May 6, voted 4-0 to recommend approval of Corrective Map Amendment G-888.
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