Thursday, December 27, 2012
County dogs will soon be able to frolic for free at the department's five public dog parks.
County dog owners have one more gift coming their way this holiday season, courtesy the Montgomery County Department of Parks – the annual $40 dog park permit fee is no more. The fee, which was instituted in July 2010, may have been keeping some dog owners away from the department’s five dog parks, said parks spokeswoman Melissa Chotiner. While parks officials don’t have numbers indicating use of the parks has declined, “anecdotally, we were hearing from park managers saying they were noticing the use has gone down since the permit fee was started,” Chotiner said. The fee will be eliminated effective in January, and the department will look into ways to make up the lost revenue, according to a parks statement. The fee was unpopular among …
Thursday, November 15, 2012
The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission acquired the land that was formerly home to the Maryland College of Art and Design.
A new park is coming to the stretch of Georgia Avenue between Wheaton and Forest Glen. The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission announced Thursday that it had acquired a 2.47 acre plot of land on the west side of Georgia Avenue to create the new Carroll Knolls Local Park. The site was previously owned by the Montgomery College Foundation, Inc., and formerly home to the Maryland College of Art and Design (MCAD). The land was acquired through the department’s Legacy Open Space Program for $1,140,000. An additional 1.2 acres will be incorporated into the park with the anticipated donation of an adjacent lot and the incorporation of several undeveloped road rights-of-way, resulting in a new local park almost four acres in …
Monday, July 25, 2011
Director Mary Bradford says department will work with MCPS to find a tenable solution.
Mary Bradford, director of Montgomery County Parks, said her department will continue to stand up for Rock Creek Hills Park, which is being considered by the school board as the site for a new middle school. "We have two very important public goods: good schools and good parks," Bradford said. "And they should not be placed in conflict." Bradford said her department will form a working group this fall to work with Montgomery County Public Schools on balancing the two. She said Parks is also keeping an eye on the ongoing public design meetings hosted by MCPS. "Our message is that open space is not the same thing as vacant land, and we urge the school board to consider purchasing our properties in areas where it doesn’t take away that public…
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Residents have said they were left out of a site selection process that recommended their neighborhood park as a site for a new B-CC middle school.
The Gazette is reporting that neighbors of a Kensington park that’s the proposed site for a new B-CC middle school have filed an open meetings complaint with the Montgomery County Board of Education. The neighbors have said they were not included in a site selection committee that recommended the Rock Creek Hills local park to be studied for a new school in the overcrowded cluster, voicing their opposition to the selection process at a recent community meeting and before the Board of Education May 24. The Rock Creek Hills Citizens Association filed the complaint Thursday, The Gazette reported. The complaint alleges the Board of Education used exceptions to the Maryland Open Meetings Law to "deliberately and systematically avoid its …
Marnie
10:16 am on Saturday, December 29, 2012
I'm please that the County is encouraging the use of dog parks by eliminating the fee. It would be wonderful if the County would add new dog parks, and it would be great to have one closer by, possibly in Norwood Park, where many dog owners already bring their dogs. more ›