I am especially concerned with the additional heights and densities proposed for Battery Lane, an edge community that needs to keep it's parks, walkways and homes in sunlight.
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Michael Fetchko
10 years ago
The Montgomery Count Planning Board must revisit their worksession decisions over the past year to reduce heights and densities handed out to developers in Bethesda's edge neighborhoods. Keep Bethesda from becoming just one more congested DC suburb.
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Jane Axelrad
10 years ago
It is critical that the Planning Board reconsider its provisional approvals of significant increases in building heights and density for the properties listed in the petition. The heights of these buildings and the densities are totally inappropriate given their location at the edge of a residential community and far from the Bethesda Metro.
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scott egloff
10 years ago
This "Developers gone wild" has got to stop.
They need to spend some time on Wisconsin Ave at 5 pm!
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Jodi Herman
10 years ago
Schools are already at and over capacity. Multi family housing is family housing. Please pay attention to the impact on our kids of development that doesn't provide for school growth.
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Evan Hirsche
10 years ago
As a resident of Chevy Chase, and who wiIl be directly affected by the building, I strongly oppose the Jaffe Tower as proposed. It is too tall, too big, and completely out of scale with the surrounding community. I do not oppose smart, appropriately-scaled development of the site, but this is anything but. Thank you.
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Laura Kalick
10 years ago
With the additional traffic this will make section IV feel like a prison!
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Kelly Volz
10 years ago
We need to really listen and consider the residents and community. No more pushing agendas down our throats and pretending this is what the community wants.
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Karen Barbetta Anillo
10 years ago
Dont you dare without fixing the overcrowded schools issue!
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Carolyn Elefant
10 years ago
I find it very ironic that I cannot build a tall house on MY private property due to socialist anti-mans ionization laws but developers can do whatever they want wherever they want with no restrictions on height or review if impacts on traffic and community. I've lived in Bethesda 24 years now but I'm starting to count the days until I can escape.
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Kristen Lindberg
10 years ago
I agree wholeheartedly with this petition and am discouraged about the effects the already-insane pace of development has had on the quality of life of current Bethesda residents. Please make it stop! We need more green space, not more condos and traffic and crowding.
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Lynn Miller
10 years ago
Our schools, streets, and recreation centers are bursting at the seams right now. Adding more development without ANY neighborhood input is unconscionable. Don't destroy what made Bethesda so desirable. Yes, let's have growth but in the context of a full assessment with neighborhood input, not in this roundabout fashion!
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Ann Wild
10 years ago
Decreased density is vitally necessary for at least two reasons: 1) to make Bethesda a truly livable space and not so overloaded with traffic that it becomes one major traffic jam and 2) to protect the edge communitites from high density that will infringe on these neighborhoods in a way that would negatively and profoundly affect their livability. High buildings should not be approved at or near the borders of the great neighborhoods that abut downtown Bethesda.
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Maj-Britt Dohlie
10 years ago
It's simply insanity to build like proposed with total disregard for already inadequate infrastructure in terms of roads/public transportation, schools, and lack of parks and green space. The attack on edge communities will totally destroy quality of life in our neighborhoods.
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Andrea D. Harris
10 years ago
We need community-friendly development focused on 'edge properties', not developer-friendly zoning changes, density transfer schemes, or increased heights and densities. The future of Bethesda should not include development that pits neighbor against neighbor.
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William Zellmer
10 years ago
I live in downtown Bethesda and am very worried about the impact of excessive commercial development on the quality of life in my neighborhood.
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Virginia Ceaser
10 years ago
We have been "ground zero" for rapid and thoughtless overdevelopment throughout Bethesda. Please protect us from further density and the traffic, noise and pollution that accompanies it.
I am especially concerned with the additional heights and densities proposed for Battery Lane, an edge community that needs to keep it's parks, walkways and homes in sunlight.
The Montgomery Count Planning Board must revisit their worksession decisions over the past year to reduce heights and densities handed out to developers in Bethesda's edge neighborhoods. Keep Bethesda from becoming just one more congested DC suburb.
It is critical that the Planning Board reconsider its provisional approvals of significant increases in building heights and density for the properties listed in the petition. The heights of these buildings and the densities are totally inappropriate given their location at the edge of a residential community and far from the Bethesda Metro.
This "Developers gone wild" has got to stop. They need to spend some time on Wisconsin Ave at 5 pm!
Schools are already at and over capacity. Multi family housing is family housing. Please pay attention to the impact on our kids of development that doesn't provide for school growth.
As a resident of Chevy Chase, and who wiIl be directly affected by the building, I strongly oppose the Jaffe Tower as proposed. It is too tall, too big, and completely out of scale with the surrounding community. I do not oppose smart, appropriately-scaled development of the site, but this is anything but. Thank you.
With the additional traffic this will make section IV feel like a prison!
We need to really listen and consider the residents and community. No more pushing agendas down our throats and pretending this is what the community wants.
Dont you dare without fixing the overcrowded schools issue!
I find it very ironic that I cannot build a tall house on MY private property due to socialist anti-mans ionization laws but developers can do whatever they want wherever they want with no restrictions on height or review if impacts on traffic and community. I've lived in Bethesda 24 years now but I'm starting to count the days until I can escape.
I agree wholeheartedly with this petition and am discouraged about the effects the already-insane pace of development has had on the quality of life of current Bethesda residents. Please make it stop! We need more green space, not more condos and traffic and crowding.
Our schools, streets, and recreation centers are bursting at the seams right now. Adding more development without ANY neighborhood input is unconscionable. Don't destroy what made Bethesda so desirable. Yes, let's have growth but in the context of a full assessment with neighborhood input, not in this roundabout fashion!
Decreased density is vitally necessary for at least two reasons: 1) to make Bethesda a truly livable space and not so overloaded with traffic that it becomes one major traffic jam and 2) to protect the edge communitites from high density that will infringe on these neighborhoods in a way that would negatively and profoundly affect their livability. High buildings should not be approved at or near the borders of the great neighborhoods that abut downtown Bethesda.
It's simply insanity to build like proposed with total disregard for already inadequate infrastructure in terms of roads/public transportation, schools, and lack of parks and green space. The attack on edge communities will totally destroy quality of life in our neighborhoods.
We need community-friendly development focused on 'edge properties', not developer-friendly zoning changes, density transfer schemes, or increased heights and densities. The future of Bethesda should not include development that pits neighbor against neighbor.
I live in downtown Bethesda and am very worried about the impact of excessive commercial development on the quality of life in my neighborhood.
We have been "ground zero" for rapid and thoughtless overdevelopment throughout Bethesda. Please protect us from further density and the traffic, noise and pollution that accompanies it.