Community calls for reconsideration of site for new Bethesda-area elementary school

...“[Grosvenor] has a history as an elementary school, and a local community that supports its reopening and reassignment of their children to Grosvenor,” Walter Johnson High School cluster coordinator Emily Beckman said.

The Grosvenor site has many benefits, primarily that it is large and is centrally located to where crowding problems are, Beckman said.

Wendy Calhoun, a former Walter Johnson cluster coordinator, highlighted that the school board has voted three times to undergo a site selection process for a new elementary school since 2016. Once, the process never started. Other times, it was never finished.

This time, Calhoun said, the school district is not listening to the community’s input...

https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/schools/community-calls-for-reconsideration-of-site-for-new-bethesda-area-elementary-school/

Three sites remain for possible elementary school in Bethesda area

https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/schools/three-sites-remain-for-possible-elementary-school-in-bethesda-area/

BRADLEY BOULEVARD CITIZENS ASSOCIATION, ET AL. v. MONTGOMERY COUNTY PLANNING BOARD, ET AL.

Toll Brothers Inc. applied to the Montgomery County Planning Board to develop a parcel of land known as the “WMAL Radio Transmission Site” located in Montgomery County. The Montgomery County Planning Board approved the application, a decision later challenged by the Bradley Boulevard Citizens Association and other petitioners in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County. The circuit court affirmed the Board’s approval. Before us now, the Citizens Association presents the following questions for our review: (1) whether the Board’s findings were supported by substantial evidence; (2) whether Toll Brothers’ application met the requirements for a variance under § 22A-21 of the Montgomery County Code; and (3) whether the Toll Brothers’ development plan conforms to the North Bethesda Master Plan. Because we hold that the Board’s findings were factually supported, legally correct, and in conformity with the Master Plan, we affirm...

 https://mdcourts.gov/sites/default/files/unreported-opinions/1034s18.pdf