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November 05, 2011
As many of you know, I’m also President of the Randolph Civic Association. We recently took a position against the Community Benefits Agreement legislation now before the County Council (Bill 33-11). Simply stated, the bill would force any new large retailer over 75,000sf to enter into a community benefits agreement with three recognized civic association in a five mile radius.
September 02, 2011
Guest post by Montgomery County District 1 Council Member Roger Berliner.
Last week, I asked the County Executive to lend his support to expanding a robust bikeshare program to the Bethesda area. Both DC and Arlington have an extensive network of bikeshare stations, and I believe including Bethesda in the continued development of this network makes a lot of sense.
Because of its high metro ridership, proximity to existing bikeshare stations, and connectivity to biking trails in DC - not to mention the traffic impacts related to BRAC - Bethesda is an excellent candidate for expansion of the existing system. In fact, over 200 residents of Bethesda are already Capital Bikeshare members – and that’s with zero stations in Montgomery County.
June 28, 2011
I am very happy to congratulate Casey Anderson, a Citizens League Board member, on being sworn in as the newest member of the Montgomery County Planning Board. This is somewhat bittersweet, as we also must bid Casey farewell as a member of our Board, but Casey is now in a better position to implement the positive change the League tries to promote throughout the County.
May 10, 2011
What’s making Montgomery County’s leaders so cranky the last few months?
Not to sound like Donald Trump, but that’s easy: The budget.
But, again, like Donald Trump, that’s too simple. The budget looms over everyone and everything. Always has. Always will. That’s true in the best of times, as the County’s population boomed, buildings rose, new technology glistened, and tax revenues flowed. Even as the County spent and spent and spent, there was always the realization that the good times would someday peter out.
April 01, 2011
Too many of us travel the same routes from home to work, school, the grocery store, or our kids’ soccer games day after day without ever exploring the neighborhoods we travel past. The result is that we know little or nothing about many of the places and people in our own backyards.
The Silver Spring Citizens Advisory Board is trying to change that by hosting a series of walking and biking tours of the neighborhoods in our community. The next tour is on April 3, when I will be leading a tour of Lyttonsville, a neighborhood of 68 acres on the western edge of Silver Spring, with local activists.