Ashton Meeting Place

Ashton Meeting Place (AMP) developers have submitted a new plan to Montgomery County Park and Planning. The new plan does not support the concept of a rural village center because:

A long, high wall with fake windows again lines Route 108
Active store fronts on Route 108 have been removed
Pedestrian access is poor
Green space at the corner, inviting pedestrians to enter the site, has been virtually eliminated
Buildings are too large for the available space, so there are not enough parking spaces

There is no encroachment on the wetlands or the wetland buffers, but that comes at the expense of other valuable features that define a village center.

The SSARPC Steering Committee will be holding an informational meeting soon so you can see the changes and discuss them. Watch for the details!

If you would like to express your opinion, you can write to the Chairman of the Park and Planning Board or the Gazette (see addresses below).

Late last week we learned that the AMP developers had submitted a new plan to Montgomery County Park and Planning, replacing the plan that was discussed at the April 12th public hearing. The new plan ignores many of the points raised by those testifying at the Public Hearing, including size, scale, access, parking and traffic flow, as well as recommendations made by Montgomery County’s Park and Planning staff.

The SSARPC was not given an opportunity to comment on the latest design. The new design eliminates most of the desirable elements that the AMP developers and representatives of the SSARPC Steering Committee had agreed to and that made AMP’s original design more compliant with the Sandy Spring-Ashton Master Plan’s vision for the Village Center.

The new design eliminates the encroachment by pavement and buildings on the wetlands and the wetland buffers, at the expense of a number of features that support a village center concept:

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