Politics & Government
Town Will Discuss Sector Plan Tonight
The Revitalization Committee will work on the plan's design guidelines and hear a new proposal.
Kensington's sector plan debate continues tonight as the Revitalization Committee meets to discuss the town's proposed design guidelines.
The meeting starts at 7 p.m. in .
The current draft of the guidelines, proposed by the Planning Department, includes widened sidewalks, right-of-way landscaping and public art. Planning staffers Fred Boyd and Michael Brown will be at the meeting to discuss the draft.
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The committee will also hear a presentation from Stowe Teti on including plans for a Village Center in the document. The Village Center would seek to develop a walkable business district near the MARC station, away from Connecticut Avenue.
After the meeting, the Revitalization Committee will make a recommendation to the Town Council, which could vote on the guidelines as soon as Jan. 9.
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This meeting follows the County Council's before the Planning, Housing and Economic Development Committee reconvenes in January.
Some members of the community have on the design guidelines, but Mayor Peter Fosselman has said that the town's system of committee-to-council recommendations has been in place for years and works well.
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