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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Tags: MCA
Janet M January 4th, 2008
Today the MCA’s BRAC Committee submitted its response to the Navy’s Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) pertaining to the BRAC consolidation move of Walter Reed Army Medical Center to the National Naval Medical Center.
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Tags: BRAC, MCA, NavyMed
Allen M January 1st, 2008
A new parking plan starts tomorrow, January 2nd at the Bethesda Library:
Under the plan, library patrons using the parking lot will park in numbered spaces, then enter the space number at a kiosk inside the library. This will allow them to park free for two hours. Customers using the library for longer than two hours need only to re-enter the number of their space. There is no time limit on the number of hours library customers may park, as long as the space number is validated every two hours.
After the County Council voted to make parking free at all county libraries, the meters at the Bethesda Library were removed. This led to an influx of non-library users which resulted in a full lot most of the day. Hopefully the new plan will eliminate the freeloaders.
Tags: downtown, MoCo
Mark N December 18th, 2007
The Montgomery County Division of Solid Waste Services reminds residents that
Tuesday, December 25, 2007 – Christmas Day – and Tuesday, January 1,
2008 – New Year’s Day – are recycling and trash collection holidays.
There will be no County-provided recycling or trash collections on
December 25 or January 1; normal Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and
Friday collections these weeks shift by one day.
If your normal collection day is MONDAY,
your collections will be made Monday, December 24 + December 31.
If your normal collection day is TUESDAY,
your collections will be made Wednesday, December 26 + January 2.
If your normal collection day is WEDNESDAY,
your collections will be made Thursday, December 27 + January 3.
If your normal collection day is THURSDAY,
your collections will be made Friday, December 28 + January 4.
If your normal collection day is FRIDAY,
your collections will be made Saturday, December 29 + January 5.
If you have any questions or concerns about your collection, please contact solid waste services online or call 240-777-6410.
Tags: MoCo
Janet M December 12th, 2007
As the Post reported recently in a page one story, The Navy’s Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for National Naval Medical Center (NNMC) BRAC has been released and is available for public viewing on the Navy’s NNMC BRAC web site.
The planned expansion of the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda will add an estimated 2,200 workers and double the number of patients and visitors at the center’s campus each year, increasing traffic in a congested area of Montgomery County, according to a draft report released by the Navy…
What it does not spell out is who will pay for road improvements that county officials estimate could cost $70 million.
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Tags: BRAC, NavyMed
