I protest this and much of the other development, unabated, that is scarfing up all of Bethesda. It is out of control. Enough!
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Christina Files
10 years ago
Correction 12-25 story buildings .... Instead, we should follow the example of DC building height limits set by Congress, which ensured the beauty of our Capital.
[In 1910, the 61st United States Congress enacted a new law which raised the overall building height limit to 130 feet (40 m), but restricted building heights to the width of the adjacent street or avenue plus 20 feet (6.1 m); thus, a building facing a 90-foot (27 m)-wide street could be only 110 feet (34 m) tall.]
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Christina Files
10 years ago
The County Planning Board is approving way too many tall, outsized buildings for Bethesda. 15-20 ft. skyscrapers will ruin Bethesda!
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Helen Price
10 years ago
Please don't overwhelm our neighborhood. Don't feed traffic from the parking lot and to and from Wisconsin onto the intersection of Ridge and West as is proposed. Ridge has one traffic lane, no sidewalks and lots of people walking in the street. There is no current access from Wisconsin for a reason. The streets can't handle it.
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Ann Wild
10 years ago
To change the R-60 residential zoning at the back of the two lots that would facilitate the construction of the massive Jaffe Tower immediately adjacent to the front yards of single-family homes facing and near West Ave. is a disaster in the making. It is totally unfair not only to those nearby residents, but also to the rest of the Town of Chevy Chase because of the influx of traffic, etc., from a building that size. In addition, I dearly hope you will not even consider a cut-through road from Wisconsin to West that would bring more traffic into the Town than it could ever manage. Making an entrance to a lower density building off Wisconsin that does not go through to West Ave. is fine. Until very recently Town residents did not know about the proposed 14-story Jaffe Tower. Now they are appalled and angry about it. We are a single-family neighborhood, not a commercial zone. The Eastern Greenway should have the lowest density in Bethesda, given its distance from the Metro. The current plan, as proposed, will certainly please the developers, but it is not in the spirit of the Sector Plan and stands to permanently harm the residents of the Town of Chevy Chase.
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John M. Fitzgerald
10 years ago
This proposal is yet another in a long line that demonstrates that the current planning process and County Council have virtually no enforceable standards to limit density to that which a healthy community can bear, given that the current transportation system is broken and that ambient air, water, and noise (due to construction) pollution levels are already impaired and falling. An example is the most recent new middle school being built in what was once an inviolate forest protecting the Rock Creek watershed from excess storm-water. That protection was tossed aside. It was built there only so that new residential permits could be granted without running up against one of the few limits to growth in the County. What was once an attractive community with parks, trails, green space, good schools and quality of life is now being stuffed like a goose for liver pate. The healthy goose that once regularly laid the golden eggs of Bethesda-Chevy Chase is now being prepared for slaughter for one last feast before the current Council Members retire, perhaps to countries that do not have extradition treaties with the U.S.
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Steve Seidel
10 years ago
This site is too distant from the Metro and too close to a residential neighborhood for this large a building.
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Melanie Manfield
10 years ago
Please do not allow a cut-through road to be created.
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George Schu
10 years ago
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This development represents habitat encroachment that would negatively impact the quality of life of nearby residents by blocking sunlight, increasing traffic and further taxing already heavily used infrastructure.
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David Lublin
10 years ago
It's much too tall for the transition zone between Wisconsin and West. As a result, it completely violates the sensible graduated heights between different levels of density central to the current Master Plan. The roads already don't support current traffic in and out of TOCC. Thanks for organizing this petition.
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I protest this and much of the other development, unabated, that is scarfing up all of Bethesda. It is out of control. Enough!
Correction 12-25 story buildings .... Instead, we should follow the example of DC building height limits set by Congress, which ensured the beauty of our Capital. [In 1910, the 61st United States Congress enacted a new law which raised the overall building height limit to 130 feet (40 m), but restricted building heights to the width of the adjacent street or avenue plus 20 feet (6.1 m); thus, a building facing a 90-foot (27 m)-wide street could be only 110 feet (34 m) tall.]
The County Planning Board is approving way too many tall, outsized buildings for Bethesda. 15-20 ft. skyscrapers will ruin Bethesda!
Please don't overwhelm our neighborhood. Don't feed traffic from the parking lot and to and from Wisconsin onto the intersection of Ridge and West as is proposed. Ridge has one traffic lane, no sidewalks and lots of people walking in the street. There is no current access from Wisconsin for a reason. The streets can't handle it.
To change the R-60 residential zoning at the back of the two lots that would facilitate the construction of the massive Jaffe Tower immediately adjacent to the front yards of single-family homes facing and near West Ave. is a disaster in the making. It is totally unfair not only to those nearby residents, but also to the rest of the Town of Chevy Chase because of the influx of traffic, etc., from a building that size. In addition, I dearly hope you will not even consider a cut-through road from Wisconsin to West that would bring more traffic into the Town than it could ever manage. Making an entrance to a lower density building off Wisconsin that does not go through to West Ave. is fine. Until very recently Town residents did not know about the proposed 14-story Jaffe Tower. Now they are appalled and angry about it. We are a single-family neighborhood, not a commercial zone. The Eastern Greenway should have the lowest density in Bethesda, given its distance from the Metro. The current plan, as proposed, will certainly please the developers, but it is not in the spirit of the Sector Plan and stands to permanently harm the residents of the Town of Chevy Chase.
This proposal is yet another in a long line that demonstrates that the current planning process and County Council have virtually no enforceable standards to limit density to that which a healthy community can bear, given that the current transportation system is broken and that ambient air, water, and noise (due to construction) pollution levels are already impaired and falling. An example is the most recent new middle school being built in what was once an inviolate forest protecting the Rock Creek watershed from excess storm-water. That protection was tossed aside. It was built there only so that new residential permits could be granted without running up against one of the few limits to growth in the County. What was once an attractive community with parks, trails, green space, good schools and quality of life is now being stuffed like a goose for liver pate. The healthy goose that once regularly laid the golden eggs of Bethesda-Chevy Chase is now being prepared for slaughter for one last feast before the current Council Members retire, perhaps to countries that do not have extradition treaties with the U.S.
This site is too distant from the Metro and too close to a residential neighborhood for this large a building.
Please do not allow a cut-through road to be created.
This development represents habitat encroachment that would negatively impact the quality of life of nearby residents by blocking sunlight, increasing traffic and further taxing already heavily used infrastructure.
It's much too tall for the transition zone between Wisconsin and West. As a result, it completely violates the sensible graduated heights between different levels of density central to the current Master Plan. The roads already don't support current traffic in and out of TOCC. Thanks for organizing this petition.