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Sandy Spring-Ashton Rural Preservation Consortium
The
SSARPC (PreserveAshton.net)
supports
development in Ashton that conforms to the Master Plan.
We
are pro-Master Plan, not anti-development.
Open
Meeting to Discuss the Planning Staff
Response
to AMP Proposal
On Saturday, April 7, from 10 am until noon, members of the SSARPC Steering Committee will be available to discuss the Montgomery
County Planning Staff response to the Ashton Meeting Place (AMP) design.
The meeting will be held at the Sandy Spring Friends School in the lobby of the
Yarnell Building. When you enter Friends School, drive past the stop
sign and park in the lot on the left. The Yarnell Building is the first
brick building on the right.
SSARPC Steering Committee members will be there to discuss your ideas,
let you know the SSARPC Steering Committee’s thoughts, and to answer
questions that you may have. Copies of the plan will be available for you
to review.
The meeting of the Planning Board on April 12 is the last time for citizens to provide their input before a decision is made concerning the
AMP development. We hope that this open meeting will provide an
opportunity for you to become more educated about the AMP development and why
the Planning Staff is recommending denial.
Planning
Staff Report Online
Late Monday the Montgomery County Planning Department of the Maryland
National Capital Park and Planning Commission (MNCPPC) made public the staff
report on Ashton Meeting Place (AMP). The staff report finds AMP to
be non-compliant in the areas of
- Zoning Requirements
- Sandy Spring-Ashton Master Plan
- Subdivision Regulations
- Encroachment into wetlands, wetland buffers, and
stream valley buffers
- The locations of buildings, structures, and
pedestrian and vehicular circulation systems not adequately safe and
efficient
The full
Staff Report is available at the MNCPPC web site. It is 94 pages of scanned documents (20 MB) and has been found difficult to print by many
people. The MNCPPC web site offers some tips
to help with printing.
In order to help those who have trouble with printing or perhaps do not
with to read the entire document, we have extracted the first 23
pages of the staff report (1.8 MB), everything except the
attachments. There are two pictures in the 23-page documents, so we have
extracted them and made available separately as the 23
page-document without pictures, the picture
for page 3, and picture
for page 4.
The documents are all PDF files. If you do not have Adobe Reader 8, you should obtain it here. If you
do not have a program to view the JPG picture files, a free one is available at
www.irfanview.com.
If you need assistance, write to ssarpc.help@verizon.net.
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