For Immediate Release: Monday, February 5, 2007
FROM THE OFFICE OF COUNCILMEMBER ROGER BERLINER
Responding to wide-spread complaints from residents in his district about “McMansions” and “houses on steroids,” Montgomery County Councilmember Roger Berliner (Bethesda, Chevy Chase, and Potomac) will lead a tour on Wednesday, February 7 to visit some sites that have generated considerable controversy. The Department of Permitting Services has agreed to join Councilmember Berliner and will share that agency’s perspective regarding these sites.
Leaving from the Council Office Building, the tour will stop at three large home construction projects in Bethesda and discuss the impacts of these projects on neighbors. At each site neighbors will share their concerns over traffic disruption and noise during construction, storm water runoff onto neighbors’ property because of new drainage patterns, loss of sun exposure from tall roofs, tree removal and tree damage, lack of space between houses, and the altered character of a neighborhood when million dollar mansions are constructed next to older, often smaller, homes.
Departs:
10:00 am Wednesday, February 7
Council Office Building, 100 Maryland Avenue, Rockville, MD
Duration: Two hours
Stops (all in Bethesda):
10:15 am
5104 Moorland Avenue
10:45
5104 Hampden Lane
11:15
Corner of Wiscasset Road and Mohican Place
Release ID: 07-008