Let’s Make Downtown Bethesda Green with Parks
Now Is the Time for the Montgomery County Council & Executive to Act
The new Bethesda Downtown Plan for land use will make Bethesda more crowded, dense and traffic filled over the next 20 years. But we don’t want an urban area of just tall buildings and parking garages. WE NEED PARKS AND OPEN SPACE TO SERVE ALL WHO LIVE AND WORK HERE TODAY and for years to come.
It’s time for the Montgomery County Council and County Executive Leggett to create new parkland by converting four county-owned surface parking lots in Bethesda into parks. These lots – two near East Bethesda and two adjacent to the Farm Woman’s market –should continue to serve the public by remaining open spaces instead of being sold for new building development. Bethesda’s growth may push surface parking underground, but the public should benefit from this, not lose from it.
We care because:
- These four parking lots are the ONLY centrally located and readily available areas for park development in downtown Bethesda. This outdoor recreational space is necessary to serve existing residents and the thousands of new residents and office workers coming.
- These parks will boost Bethesda’s vitality and sense of community, offering welcoming spaces for all of us to meet, play, and celebrate events together.
- Parks create economic value and extra County tax revenue. Buildings that look out on attractive open spaces are more desirable to residents and businesses.
- The lots are public property and should be developed in the public interest. Taxpayers paid for these parking lots a long time ago.
It’s now or never. Montgomery County Council and Executive must ensure green open space in downtown Bethesda for generations to come by establishing parks on the land it already owns for all who live, work and shop in Bethesda.
Thank you!
Coalition of Bethesda Area Residents
For more information go to our website at CBAR.info and follow us on Twitter at @cbar_moco
6 Comments
Bethesda needs to save as much green space as possible for current and future residents.
I agree, make downtown Bethesda green with parks!
Ray
County Council Roger Berliner asked for assurance that the public does indeed want the parking lots converted into parks. Parking will go underground no matter what. If you want the topside to be usable by the public rather than sold, please sign this petition and SHARE it with your friends and neighbors!
Given the level of additional density, traffic and people planned for downtown Bethesda over the next two decades and the current scarcity of park space, we need to have more places to meet, play, and celebrate. We have much less park space than most areas in the DMV
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Let’s Make Downtown Bethesda Green with Parks
Now Is the Time for the Montgomery County Council & Executive to Act
The new Bethesda Downtown Plan for land use will make Bethesda more crowded, dense and traffic filled over the next 20 years. But we don’t want an urban area of just tall buildings and parking garages. WE NEED PARKS AND OPEN SPACE TO SERVE ALL WHO LIVE AND WORK HERE TODAY and for years to come.
It’s time for the Montgomery County Council and County Executive Leggett to create new parkland by converting four county-owned surface parking lots in Bethesda into parks. These lots – two near East Bethesda and two adjacent to the Farm Woman’s market –should continue to serve the public by remaining open spaces instead of being sold for new building development. Bethesda’s growth may push surface parking underground, but the public should benefit from this, not lose from it.
We care because:
- These four parking lots are the ONLY centrally located and readily available areas for park development in downtown Bethesda. This outdoor recreational space is necessary to serve existing residents and the thousands of new residents and office workers coming.
- These parks will boost Bethesda’s vitality and sense of community, offering welcoming spaces for all of us to meet, play, and celebrate events together.
- Parks create economic value and extra County tax revenue. Buildings that look out on attractive open spaces are more desirable to residents and businesses.
- The lots are public property and should be developed in the public interest. Taxpayers paid for these parking lots a long time ago.
It’s now or never. Montgomery County Council and Executive must ensure green open space in downtown Bethesda for generations to come by establishing parks on the land it already owns for all who live, work and shop in Bethesda.
Thank you!
Coalition of Bethesda Area Residents
For more information go to our website at CBAR.info and follow us on Twitter at @cbar_moco
6 Comments
Bethesda is in need of more parkland. In particular, area that acts as a linear park will be taken for the Purple Line, leaving us in a serious deficit. With the future residents in the newly built and proposed high-rises adding to the population, a significant amount of publicly controlled open space will be needed.
Bethesda needs to save as much green space as possible for current and future residents.
I agree, make downtown Bethesda green with parks!
Ray
County Council Roger Berliner asked for assurance that the public does indeed want the parking lots converted into parks. Parking will go underground no matter what. If you want the topside to be usable by the public rather than sold, please sign this petition and SHARE it with your friends and neighbors!
Given the level of additional density, traffic and people planned for downtown Bethesda over the next two decades and the current scarcity of park space, we need to have more places to meet, play, and celebrate. We have much less park space than most areas in the DMV
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Bethesda is in need of more parkland. In particular, area that acts as a linear park will be taken for the Purple Line, leaving us in a serious deficit. With the future residents in the newly built and proposed high-rises adding to the population, a significant amount of publicly controlled open space will be needed.