Petition to Conserve, Protect and Enhance the Brookville Road Business District
142 Comments
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Amy Turim
11 years ago
Silver Spring and Bethesda have made zoning decisions that have had serious negative impact on small, local businesses. As a long-time local taxpayer, I want to see the Brookville Road Business District thrive as it is!
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Candice Haaga
11 years ago
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It would be a shame to drive out so many long-term locally-owned businesses that employ so many. Such businesses can't easily re-locate, so it would effectively end many careers & local services.
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Natasha Leskovsek
11 years ago
The Brookville Road business district has many vital services for Silver Spring residents.
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Karen Farkas
11 years ago
This is a truly valuable service. Montgomery County has very few excellent facilities like this for dogs.
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Ian Brown
11 years ago
Residential and Industrial just don't mix. Please consider zoning that protects the many businesses that contribute to our economy.
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Renee Davis
11 years ago
Keep in my that one hunderd bussiness will close and thousands will be out of work. Please remove all residential componets from Brookville Road Business District area of the Greater Lyttonsville Sector.
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Celeste Woolfork
11 years ago
Please reconsider any legislation that would impact the industrial park. Dozens of businesses, thousands of employees and too many consumers to count all rely on the business district. Residential developments are popping up all over Montgomery County...surely this one area can be spared! PLEASE remove all residential components from the Brookville Road Business District of the GLP.
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Jana goldman
11 years ago
We need a thriving small business community in this area. I was thinking to know more about this proposed change, but if it means an end to the small businesses we now have, then I am strongly again
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Neal Burks
11 years ago
I ask that all residential components be removed from Brookville Rd. Business District area of the Greater Lyttonsville Sector Plan (GLP). • I also ask that the proposed zoning be modified to Conserve, Protect and Enhance Montgomery County's last industrial park inside the beltway, allowing for greater business opportunity.
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Dana Johnson
11 years ago
Industrial areas are vital to a balanced and healthy community. These areas provide well paying jobs for people who can't afford to live in bedroom communities, but have skills to do much more than run a cash register. Successful industrial zones are successful because they are needed and have a solid base of customers. Having local businesses that have the ability to accommodate local needs for manufacturing or maintenance services allows the existence of businesses in their whole service area to exist, instead of having to relocate to distant areas where these businesses still exist. Changing this zoning only benefits a small number of developers who make a lot of money building housing where there are no jobs, increasing the load on our already strapped transit systems, instead of continuing to benefit all the local jobs that would be eliminated.
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Sarah Underwood
11 years ago
Businesses in this district provide many valuable services to Montgomery County residents which are not easily obtainable elsewhere nearby.
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Trevor Goodyear
11 years ago
Keep *some* parts of MoCo affordable! Please!
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Frank Kirste
11 years ago
Landscapers deserve respect.
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Cookie Anagnoson
11 years ago
If something is working, don't mess with it! Leave Brookville Road alone!
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Nancy Pendery
11 years ago
The neighborhood streets cannot sustain more traffic, more pollution. ;
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Melanie Isis
11 years ago
Leave it alone, there's enough apartments in Silver Spring without rezoning valuable light industrial close-in/
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Stephen DiMartino
11 years ago
DO NOT CLOSE CLEVERDOG!!
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Teresa Labarta
11 years ago
Businesses = Jobs
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Deborah Younkers
11 years ago
Featured
Given that this GL area currently has many multifamily buildings and more density for these buildings is planned it seems to be overkill to add a residential component to a healthy & vital business district.
Silver Spring and Bethesda have made zoning decisions that have had serious negative impact on small, local businesses. As a long-time local taxpayer, I want to see the Brookville Road Business District thrive as it is!
It would be a shame to drive out so many long-term locally-owned businesses that employ so many. Such businesses can't easily re-locate, so it would effectively end many careers & local services.
The Brookville Road business district has many vital services for Silver Spring residents.
This is a truly valuable service. Montgomery County has very few excellent facilities like this for dogs.
Residential and Industrial just don't mix. Please consider zoning that protects the many businesses that contribute to our economy.
Keep in my that one hunderd bussiness will close and thousands will be out of work. Please remove all residential componets from Brookville Road Business District area of the Greater Lyttonsville Sector.
Please reconsider any legislation that would impact the industrial park. Dozens of businesses, thousands of employees and too many consumers to count all rely on the business district. Residential developments are popping up all over Montgomery County...surely this one area can be spared! PLEASE remove all residential components from the Brookville Road Business District of the GLP.
We need a thriving small business community in this area. I was thinking to know more about this proposed change, but if it means an end to the small businesses we now have, then I am strongly again
I ask that all residential components be removed from Brookville Rd. Business District area of the Greater Lyttonsville Sector Plan (GLP). • I also ask that the proposed zoning be modified to Conserve, Protect and Enhance Montgomery County's last industrial park inside the beltway, allowing for greater business opportunity.
Industrial areas are vital to a balanced and healthy community. These areas provide well paying jobs for people who can't afford to live in bedroom communities, but have skills to do much more than run a cash register. Successful industrial zones are successful because they are needed and have a solid base of customers. Having local businesses that have the ability to accommodate local needs for manufacturing or maintenance services allows the existence of businesses in their whole service area to exist, instead of having to relocate to distant areas where these businesses still exist. Changing this zoning only benefits a small number of developers who make a lot of money building housing where there are no jobs, increasing the load on our already strapped transit systems, instead of continuing to benefit all the local jobs that would be eliminated.
Businesses in this district provide many valuable services to Montgomery County residents which are not easily obtainable elsewhere nearby.
Keep *some* parts of MoCo affordable! Please!
Landscapers deserve respect.
If something is working, don't mess with it! Leave Brookville Road alone!
The neighborhood streets cannot sustain more traffic, more pollution. ;
Leave it alone, there's enough apartments in Silver Spring without rezoning valuable light industrial close-in/
DO NOT CLOSE CLEVERDOG!!
Businesses = Jobs
Given that this GL area currently has many multifamily buildings and more density for these buildings is planned it seems to be overkill to add a residential component to a healthy & vital business district.
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