The Montgomery County Planning Board Agenda

Thursday, October 24, 2013

REVISED

Thursday, October 17, 2013 - 4:30 pm

8787 Georgia Avenue
Silver Spring, MD 20910-3760
301-495-4605
www.montgomeryplanningboard.org


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  1. Unless otherwise noted, Planning Board meetings are held on Thursdays and begin at 9:00 a.m. The agenda is subject to change and certain items may be postponed or added.
  2. The Planning Board encourages public testimony unless otherwise noted on the agenda. Refer to the Planning Board Rules of Procedure for more information on public testimony. Any individual or organization may submit a written statement for consideration by the Planning Board. Written comments must be received in the Chair's office at least 24 hours in advance of the Planning Board hearing date, referencing the hearing date and item, to be reviewed by the Board and included in the official record of the hearing. Written comments received within 24 hours before a hearing date will be placed in the file, but will not be considered by the Planning Board or included in the official record. Comments should be transmitted via e-mail to MCP-Chair@mncppc-mc.org, faxed to Chair Françoise Carrier at 301-495-1320, or addressed to: Françoise Carrier, Chair, Montgomery County Planning Board, 8787 Georgia Avenue, Silver Spring, Maryland 20910.
  3. Copies of testimony presented orally or copies of correspondence will not be distributed at the hearing.
  4. Occasionally due to time constraints, the Planning Board may limit the total amount of time dedicated to public testimony. Public testimony may not be taken for items identified as Briefings, Worksessions and/or Roundtables. On other occasions when no public testimony will be taken, the agenda will specify.
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9:00 AM PLANNING BOARD MEETING - MRO AUDITORIUM
 

** For more details about the Planning Board’s action on any item, you may link to the videotaped hearing after noon on the day following the meeting and select the item you wish to hear. **

item 1 Consent Agenda
 

*A. Adoption of Resolutions

 

1. North Bethesda Gateway, Sketch Plan No. 32011002A

Planning Board Action/Decision: Adopted.
2. Estates at Greenbriar Preserve, Site Plan No. 82003029E

Planning Board Action/Decision: Adopted.
3. Pike & Rose (Mid Pike Plaza), Preliminary Plan No. 12012002A

Planning Board Action/Decision: Adopted.
4. Pike & Rose – Phase II, Site Plan No. 820130120

Planning Board Action/Decision: Adopted.

   
 

*B. Record Plats

  Subdivision Plat No. 220131540, Chevy Chase Park
R-60 zone; 1 lot; located on the north side of Leland Street, 550 feet east of Oak Lane; Bethesda-Chevy Chase Master Plan.
Planning Board Action/Decision: Approved.
   
 

*C. Other Consent Items

 

1. Glenmont Metrocenter, Preliminary Plan No. 120130080

Planning Board Action/Decision: Approved.

   
  *D. Approval of Minutes
 

Minutes of September 12, 2013

Planning Board Action/Decision: Approved.

   
Item 2 Roundtable Discussion -TIME CHANGED

 

A. Planning Director’s Report

Planning Board Action/Decision: Discussion.

   
Item *3 The Blairs Master Plan - TIME CHANGED

 

 

E. Grayson

Project Plan Review No. 920130050, The Blairs Master Plan, CBD-R2, 30.37 acres, 450,000 square feet of commercial development including a 125,000 square foot hotel, 203,045 square feet of office, 3,045 square feet of which is existing, 121,955 square feet of retail and 2,800 multi-family residential units, of which 1,110 units are existing; located on Blair Mill Road, approximately 551 east of Eastern Avenue, Silver Spring CBD

Staff Recommendation: Approval with Conditions

Preliminary Plan Review No. 120130220, The Blairs Master Plan, CBD-R2, 30.37 acres, 1 lot for 450,000 square feet of commercial development including a 125,000 square foot hotel, 203,045 square feet of office, 3,045 square feet of which is existing, 121,955 square feet of retail and 2,800 multi-family residential units, of which 1,110 units are existing; located on Blair Mill Road, approximately 551 east of Eastern Avenue, Silver Spring CBD

Staff Recommendation: Approval with Conditions

   
12:00 NOON LUNCH
   
Item 4 Closed Session
  Pursuant to State Government Article Annotated Code of Maryland 10-508(a)(3) to consider the acquisition of real property for a Commission purpose and matters directly related thereto
   
1:00 pm PLANNING BOARD MEETING CONTINUES - MRO AUDITORIUM
   
Item 5 Rock Creek Trail Signage Project - TIME CHANGED

 

L. Bonney

The Rock Creek Trail Signage Project is comprised of two main parts: Part 1 includes development of plans for improving trail signage along the Rock Creek Hiker-Biker Trail, including adjacent neighborhood trail connectors. Part 2 includes development of a Trail Signage Design Manual that will be used as a standard for future hard surface trail signage in Montgomery Parks.

Staff Recommendation: Discussion

   
Item *6 Gables White Flint - TIME CHANGED

 

N. Yearwood

A. Sketch Plan No. 320130010
Redevelopment of two surface parking lots and a segment of Executive Boulevard to be abandoned with a maximum of 521,000 square feet of mixed use development in three buildings in the CR3 C1.5 R2.5 H70 and CR4 C2.0 R3.5 H250 zones; at the intersection of Old Georgetown Road (MD 187) and Executive Boulevard adjoining Wall Local Park and the Kennedy-Shriver Aquatics Center; 5.21 gross acres; White Flint Sector Plan area.

Staff Recommendation: Approval with Conditions and Adoption of Resolutions

   
Item *7 Preliminary Plan 120130090: Goshen Heritage - TIME CHANGED

 

B. Berbert

Request to resubdivide to create four lots located on the west side of Goshen School Road approximately 1,800 feet north of the intersection with Huntmaster Road, 11.76 acres, RE-2 Zone, Preservation of Agriculture & Rural Open Space Master Plan
Staff Recommendation: Approval with Conditions and Adoption of Resolutions
   
Item *8 Preliminary Plan Amendment 11991094A: Bradley Farms, Lot 26 (In Response to a ViolatioN - TIME CHANGED

 

J. Penn

Modify the Category I Conservation Easement on the property located at 9224 Inglewood Drive, 2.71 acres, RE-2 Zone, Potomac Master Plan
Staff recommendation: Approval with Conditions and Adoption of Resolutions

   
Item 9 Chevy Chase Lake Sectional Map Amendment - TIME CHANGED

E. Hisel-McCoy/V. Lazdins

Recommendation: Approve request to file Sectional Map Amendment
   
Item *10 DANAC Stiles Property - TIME CHANGED

 

 

 

P. Butler

A. Preliminary Plan 11996112B, DANAC Stiles Property
Request to remove an old transitway easement that is no longer required across approximately 0.8 acres of the Subject Property and allow for replatting of Lots 4 and 5 to incorporate that area previously encumbered by the easement; located on approximately 30.7 acres of land in the CR Zone in the northwest quadrant of the intersection of Diamondback Drive and Key West Avenue within the GSSC Master Plan area.

Recommendation: Approval with Conditions

B. Site Plan 82000018E, DANAC Stiles Property
Request to amend the Final Forest Conservation Plan (FFCP) to add the approximately 0.8 acre area encumbered by the transitway easement to the net tract area of the FFCP, for purposes of recalculating the planting requirement; ; zoned CR in the northwest quadrant of the intersection of Diamondback Drive and Key West Avenue within the GSSC Master Plan area.

Recommendation: Approval with Conditions

   
5:05 PM DINNER
   
6:15 PM PLANNING BOARD MEETING CONTINUES - MRO AUDITORIUM
   
Item 11 Clarksburg Limited Master Plan for the Ten Mile Creek Watershed, Review of Proposed Planning Board Draft

 

V. Lazdins/M. Dolan

Staff Recommendation: Approve Planning Board Draft and Transmit to County Executive and County Council

ATTACHMENT 1 - Red-Lined copy of Public Hearing Draft Plan
ATTACHMENT 2 - Revised Summary of Testimony with Staff Responses and Board actions to date
ATTACHMENT 3 - Revised Appendix 2 Description of Modeling Scenarios and Assumptions
ATTACHMENT 4 - Revised Memo from Transportation Consultant to include Highway Capacity Manual analysis
ATTACHMENT 5 - Consultant responses to technical issues raised in the testimony about the analysis conducted

   
9:30 pm ADJOURN