The
City Council voted 5-0 in favor of submitting a letter endorsing an
April 8 memorandum authored by Board of Education member Philip Kauffman
to the Montgomery County Council and County Executive Ike Leggett.
In
the memo, Kauffman requested council members “delay their Declaration
of No Further Need on the Shady Grove Transportation Depot” until a
number of concerns “are clarified and resolved.”
“This
would include the identification of both the interim and final
solutions to our transportation depot situation, with a timeline and
associated Capital Improvements Program funding identified for the
permanent solution,” said Kauffman in the letter.
The
Board of Education voted unanimously Tuesday to authorize the Board of
Education President Michael Durso (District 5) “to write a letter to the
county executive and the County Council to request implementation of a
final solution for the relocation of all school buses before the current
Shady Grove Transportation Depot is released for its intended use.”
City Council member Mark Pierzchala drafted the letter amended by City Council members Monday night and sent Tuesday morning.
Concerns listed in the letter signed by Mayor Bridget Donnell Newton include:
- The Carver site being in a city-designated Historic District;
- Noise, visual and air quality impacts from buses running within 50-100 feet of several townhouses;
- Traffic impacts on MD 355 and neighborhood roads;
- Hundreds of bus trips across the street from Montgomery College; and
- The plan not aligning with the city’s master plan.
http://www.thesentinel.com/mont/newsx/local/item/3410-rockville-just-says-no-to-carver-bus-depot
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