Community voices were heard at the Council hearing on Tuesday! Thank you.
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Meredith Wellington
Jun 13, 2013, 5:34:49 PM6/13/13
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Dear Neighbors,
The Council held its public hearing on Tuesday night, and citizens voices came through loud and clear. Thanks to everyone who testified, sent in testimony, attended, or sent an email.
We told the Council that it must keep its promise it made to us when the CR zones were enacted—and that means putting back in this new code the requirement that the CR zones must be specifically recommended in a master or sector plan, and applied only by sectional map amendment.
We told them that the new floating zones have no place in residential neighborhoods, and should not be applied to R-60 and R-90 property.
We told them that we don’t want general buildings and multi-use buildings in our neighborhoods, and we don’t want the new relaxed use standards. We don’t want DPS approving new uses that aren’t in the code, and we don’t want developers to use “alternative compliance” to circumvent development requirements. That is, we don’t want the County “pulling down the shades” on development so that citizens don’t know what is happening to their own neighborhoods.
Please keep it up. Please email the Council, and attend the upcoming PHED sessions. The first one is tomorrow morning at 9:30 am, and I’m discussing it in a separate letter.
For now, thank you for Tuesday night.
Meredith
Neighborhood Montgomery
A Neighborhood Network for Sensible Growth
http://groups.google.com/group/neighborhood-montgomery
The Council held its public hearing on Tuesday night, and citizens voices came through loud and clear. Thanks to everyone who testified, sent in testimony, attended, or sent an email.
We told the Council that it must keep its promise it made to us when the CR zones were enacted—and that means putting back in this new code the requirement that the CR zones must be specifically recommended in a master or sector plan, and applied only by sectional map amendment.
We told them that the new floating zones have no place in residential neighborhoods, and should not be applied to R-60 and R-90 property.
We told them that we don’t want general buildings and multi-use buildings in our neighborhoods, and we don’t want the new relaxed use standards. We don’t want DPS approving new uses that aren’t in the code, and we don’t want developers to use “alternative compliance” to circumvent development requirements. That is, we don’t want the County “pulling down the shades” on development so that citizens don’t know what is happening to their own neighborhoods.
Please keep it up. Please email the Council, and attend the upcoming PHED sessions. The first one is tomorrow morning at 9:30 am, and I’m discussing it in a separate letter.
For now, thank you for Tuesday night.
Meredith
Neighborhood Montgomery
A Neighborhood Network for Sensible Growth
http://groups.google.com/group/neighborhood-montgomery
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