Montgomery County Planning Board to Hear White Flint Plan Status as Part of January 31 Meeting

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