Woodmont East update
Mark N November 9th, 2007
Yesterday Montgomery County Planning Board failed to approve the preliminary plan for the Woodmont East project. Apparently the developer, JBG Associates, has withdrawn the application for development on this site, at least for the time being.
After a day when both the Washington Post and Bethesda Gazette published articles that featured Councilmember Berliner’s proposal in favor of keeping the green space at Woodmont East, his office released this statement:
Congratulations to everyone who worked so hard to preserve open space in the heart of Bethesda. After 3 ½ hours of effective testimony from the community and increasingly skeptical questions from the Board, the developers withdrew the application. As Chairman Hanson was reported to have said, this project needs to be totally reoriented – it should first focus on the public space and then build in a manner that enhances that space. It is my hope that the developers will choose to work with the community in a formal, collaborative process to produce a result that we can all be proud of.
The Washington Post article stated that “angry residents of several Bethesda neighborhoods are mounting a letter-writing campaign” and featured this conceptual drawing that Berliner’s office commissioned to show what the site might look like if green space was preserved.
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