Friday, November 2, 2012
Costco has restarted the special exception process.
Opponents of the Costco gas station in Wheaton have formed a new umbrella group, separate from the Kensington Heights Civic Association, and are calling it The Stop Costco Gas Coalition. Costco has restarted the special exception process for the gas station at Westfield Wheaton, but the new plans shift the gas station location so that it complies with the zoning text amendment passed by the Montgomery County Council this summer. For background on the Costco gas station issue and Zoning Text Amendment 12-07, see Wheaton Patch's topics page. The new location is east of the original proposed location, but remains in the mall parking lot that borders the Kensington Heights neighborhood. Cavan Wilk, a contributor to Greater Greater Washington…
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
But a last-minute change means a proposed Costco gas station at Westfield Wheaton Mall is still in limbo.
All nine Montgomery County council members voted Tuesday afternoon to establish a 300-foot buffer between large gas stations in the county and community spaces such as parks, schools and pools. But the vote left unclear what was on everyone's minds: whether Costco would be able to build its proposed gas station at Westfield Wheaton. Councilmember Marc Elrich, the lead sponsor of Zoning Text Amendment 12-07, made a key last-minute change to the bill, reducing the buffer zone from 1,000 feet to 300 feet, in order to gain the necessary votes for passage. "They would have beat me yesterday, 5-4," Elrich said afterward. The ZTA applies to gas stations that dispense more than 3.6 million gallons per year. Costco, which has been at the center of …
Friday, July 6, 2012
The Montgomery County Council's PHED committee will discuss ZTA 12-07 on Monday.
The Montgomery County Council is set to discuss a proposed rule change on Monday for where large gas stations can be built. Last month, the Council heard from the community at a public hearing. If the rule change is approved, Costco will not be able to build its proposed gas station at Westfield Wheaton. The Council's Planning, Housing, and Economic Development committee will hold a work session on the change, known as ZTA 12-07, at 2 p.m. in Rockville. The meeting will be televised live on County Cable Montgomery. The ZTA would prevent gas stations that dispense more than 3.6 million gallons per year from being located within 1,000 feet of "any public or private school, or any park, playground, or hospital, or other public use, or any use…
Friday, June 8, 2012
ZTA 12-07 is scheduled for a public hearing at the Montgomery County Council on June 19.
No majority opinion emerged from Thursday’s meeting of the Montgomery County Planning Board about whether gas stations should continue to be regulated through the special exception process, or whether the emergence of “mega” gas stations calls for a reexamination of the rules. The contentious agenda item was a zoning text amendment that would prohibit the construction of gas stations that dispense more than 3.6 million gallons annually within 1,000 feet of “any public or private school or any park, playground, or hospital, or other public use, or any use categorized as a cultural, entertainment and recreation use.” Of the four commissioners at the meeting, Norman Dreyfuss and Amy Presley voted together to tell the county council that the …
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Monday, June 4, 2012
The planning board will discuss the ZTA this Thursday.
The special exception process already in place sufficiently regulates gas stations in Montgomery County, the Planning Department staff wrote last week in a memo to the Planning Board on Zoning Text Amendment 12-07. ZTA 12-07 would prohibit the construction of gas stations that dispense more than 3.6 million gallons annually within 1,000 feet of “any public or private school or any park, playground, or hospital, or other public use, or any use categorized as a cultural, entertainment and recreation use.” If the county council enacts the ZTA, Costco will not be able to build its proposed 16-pump gas station at Westfield Wheaton, next to the Kensington Heights neighborhood. The special exception process already underway for the Costco gas …
Frank
9:17 am on Friday, December 14, 2012
"That global stuff"? Jeez, Joe. Turn of the radio and inform yourself. You sound incredibly ignorant when you write stuff like that. more ›