Showing posts with label infrastructure. Show all posts
Showing posts with label infrastructure. Show all posts

Thursday, January 7, 2010

County Council To Receive Briefing on County's Snow Removal Operations

The Montgomery County Council will be briefed on the County’s snow removal operations at a meeting of the Transportation, Infrastructure, Energy and Environment Committee on Tuesday, January 12, 2010 at 2:30 pm.

The Committee meeting will be held in the seventh floor conference in the Council Office Building at 100 Maryland Avenue, Rockville, Maryland.

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

The Montgomery County Council Considers the White Flint Sector Plan

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