Site Admin June 4th, 2010
We’ve added a photo gallery to the Mapleleaf Online website, and for starters, it features some great photos of the recent Maplewood Spring Social taken by Allen Myers. Do you have some photos of Maplewood you’d like to share? Submit them by email and we’ll gladly publish them on this site!
Katee N May 26th, 2010
A volunteer coordinator is needed for delivery of The Mapleleaf newsletter (5 issues/membership year; January issue often mailed due to winter weather). Routes and maps have already been established and a great team of neighbors is ready to assist – although more are always welcome! Please contact MCA Vice President Janet Maalouf for more information.
Allen M October 5th, 2009
This Thursday, October 8th, shortly after 9 AM, the Montgomery County Planning Board will meet to determine the recommendation it will make to the County Council’s Hearing Examiner regarding the rezoning application by the FAES. Even though you may not desire to speak at this hearing, a large turnout of Maplewood residents will demonstrate to the Planning Board the high level of neighborhood concern and involvement regarding this issue.
The rezoning application is the second agenda item in a meeting which begins at 9 AM. You should plan to arrive as close to that time as possible, as it is difficult to predict how fast the board will deal with the item that precedes the FAES matter. The address is 8787 Georgia Avenue, at the corner of Spring Street in downtown Silver Spring. Metered parking – both short and long term – is available behind the building. Please bring adequate change as we may not be through until 11 AM or noon.
Traveling on Spring Street from Bethesda, cross Georgia Avenue, continue on Spring Street as it curves to the right, and look for the parking entrance on the right. (See this map for complete driving directions from Maplewood.)
I hope to see a large contingency from Maplewood at this meeting. If you have any questions or concerns, please let me know.
Thank you for attending the meeting on this important issue.
Mark N October 30th, 2008
As reported yesterday in the Bethesda Gazette, The McClean School of Maryland, a private K-12 institution currently located in Potomac, is proposing to relocate its upper school to the old Heart House property at 9111 Old Georgetown Road. The 10-acre site was vacated by the American College of Cardiology in September 2006 and has been unoccupied since then. Eventually, the Bethesda campus would house approximately 350 students in grades 9-12. The McLean School’s younger students (grades K-8) would stay in Potomac.
School officials have stated that although the existing building would require only a minimum of renovation to accommodate the influx of students and faculty, there will be a need for a new athletic field as well as a gymnasium on the property. They will present their proposal to the neighborhood at an upcoming meeting on the Heart House campus.
The McLean School is fully accredited and holds membership in a number of local and national organizations, including the Learning Disabilities Association and the Parents of Gifted and Talented/Learning Disabled Children. According to their web site, the school was established in 1954 to “provide a unique environment for learning that would serve the needs and gifts of all kinds of students”. An announcement on the site details the background of the planned move, and predicts a move-in date of late 2010 to early 2011.
Allen M September 21st, 2008
The Foundation for Advanced Education in the Sciences (FAES) has notified the MCA that it would like to construct 31 townhomes to house students who are obtaining advanced education degrees through the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The townhomes would be constructed on property owned by FAES bordered by West Cedar Lane, Cypress Avenue, and Acacia Avenue.
There are many zoning, environmental, design and habitability issues associated with the FAES proposal. MCA would like to invite interested Maplewood residents to join a committee that will address these issues and moderate MCA’s response to them. To join the committee, please contact MCA president Allen Myers or leave a message on the MCA hotline at 301-530-6080, or by signing up at the September 24th meeting.
Janet M January 15th, 2008
Lise Van Susteren, MD, will speak about global warming at the next Maplewood Citizens Association general membership meeting on January 30th. Van Susteren was trained by Al Gore in Nashville, Tennessee to present the slide show which became the basis of his Oscar-winning documentary film An Inconvenient Truth. Gore has since trained over 1,000 activists throughout the United States to take this slide show on the road to promote grass-roots support for the issue.
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