Minor Master Plan Amendments
The Planning Department is not accepting additional applications for minor master plan amendments following a change in its 2012-2013 work program, which is set by the County Council. The amendment process had been created to allow the Planning Department to respond to pressing planning issues in a community in short timeframes. The application process will be re-released if and when the Department’s work schedule is modified.
Background
In April, the County Council approved a process for evaluating requests for minor master plan amendments. The goals of the amendment process is to:
- enable the Department to advise the Planning Board and Council more rapidly on new issues
- facilitate focused public engagement on matters of a defined scope
- overcome circumstances where a regulatory environment precludes advancing public objectives and benefits by allowing a proposal that is consistent with evolving planning goals to proceed
- limit the proliferation of Zoning Text Amendments.
Submitted applications
- Purple Line at Terminus, Bethesda (03-20-2013)
- Somerville Drive, Shady Grove (10-12-2012)
- 4115 Aspen Hill Road, Aspen Hill (10-3-2012)
- Park Now for South Silver Spring, 8001 Newell St. Silver Spring (9-07-2012)
- Sandy Spring/Ashton Rural Village Overlay Zone, Sandy Spring (6-21-2012)
- Halpine Properties/12813, 12901, 13001 Twinbrook Pkwy (5-17-2012)
- 5151 Pooks Hill Road, Bethesda (4-20-2012)
Last updated: May 9, 2013
Montgomery County Planning Department
8787 Georgia Ave., Silver Spring, MD 20910
www.montgomeryplanning.org