Planning Board to Hold Public Hearing in Germantown on Draft MARC Rail Communities Sector Plan

For Immediate Release: Monday, January 29, 2018

The Montgomery Planning Board will hold a Public Hearing on a Draft MARC Rail Communities Sector Plan on Thursday, February 1, at 7 p.m. at the BlackRock Center for the Arts, 12901 Town Commons Drive, Germantown. The Plan makes recommendations for land use and zoning within the MARC Rail Communities Sector Plan area, focusing on the areas around the Germantown and Boyds MARC train stations.

 

The draft plan makes recommendations intended to improve overall circulation, pedestrian connections and the network of bikeways for approximately 252 acres in Boyds generally surrounding the MARC station and the intersection of Clarksburg and Clopper Roads; and the 290 acres in Germantown generally bounded by Middlebrook Road, Great Seneca Highway, Dawson Farm Road, Germantown Road and Waters Road.

 

The plan will amend the Approved and Adopted 1989 Germantown Master Plan, as amended, and the 2009 Germantown Employment Area Sector Plan. See the Plan online.

Release ID: 18-023
Media Contact: Esther Bowring 240-777-7170