Planning Board to Hold Public Hearing on Glenmont Sector Plan

The Montgomery County Planning Board will hear community feedback about the Glenmont Sector Plan at a public hearing Feb. 14.

The hearing will begin at 5 p.m. at the Planning Board headquarters at 8787 Georgia Ave. in Silver Spring.

The Planning Department has posted a draft of the sector plan online for the public hearing, including relevant maps, figures and tables.

This update to the Glenmont Sector Plan is designed to create a framework to guide development for the next 15-20 years.

Individuals may sign up to testify at the public hearing for three minutes. Community groups and property owners who will be impacted by a recommendation in the sector plan may speak for five minutes, as may public agencies and other organizations. 

Those interested in commenting on the sector plan can send written testimony--instead of or in addition to oral testimony--to the following address: Chair, Montgomery County Planning Board, 8787 Georgia Avenue, Silver Spring, MD 20910.

How to sign up to testify:

• Use the Planning Board's online application. At the drop-down menu for date, select 2/14/2013.
• Call Planning Board staff at 301-495-4600.

Read more about the Glenmont Sector Plan:

• On the Montgomery Planning website  
• On Wheaton Patch