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Stop the Destruction of Rachel Carson Meadow

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Parks Department spends millions to move a ball field and destroy a beautiful green space, home to a nearly 200 year old tree

For the last several years the Montgomery County Parks and Planning Board have been planning the destruction of the meadow at North Four Corners Local Park (colloquially, “The Rachel Carson Meadow”) and its replacement by an adult-sized soccer field and 50-car parking lot.  While ostensibly working with the community on this plan (the board plans to plant trees on an existing ball field to create a “meadow-like space” with no net gain in the number of ball fields), Parks and Planning have consistently ignored the local resident’s desires to keep the existing meadow.

 

PETITION

  • Do not waste nearly $5,000,000 of county money on this project
  • Save “Rachel Carson Meadow” with its complex topography, 10 potential champion trees, and 61 specimen trees so it can continue to function as Urban Woods & as a Community Green for down county neighborhoods.
  • Add minor upgrades to the park such as a natural playground, and manage exotic invasive plants per Weed Warriors program standards.
  • Keep the existing youth baseball/soccer field and continue to permit youth teams there.
  • Renovate Parks' existing soccer fields using natural turf techniques developed at the Soccerplex, and improve maintenance, management, and permitting of existing fields so as to increase the number of playable fields throughout the county.

 

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Bulldozers will roll within the next month or two The bulldozers will roll despite the community’s representatives in Annapolis having listened to their constituents and having removed nearly four million dollars from the Maryland state budget that would have gone toward this five million dollar project. Without the state funding, Parks and Planning have decided to reallocate the four million dollars from other projects in the county such as renovating up to 11 existing ball fields that are in need of repair, developing a long-requested park in South Silver Spring, effecting repairs at the Sligo Creek Golf Course, completion of the Metro Branch Trail or the development of the Josiah Henson Park. The county plans to spend five million dollars on the destruction of the meadow to the detriment of these other much needed projects. This petition is a last ditch effort to persuade the Montgomery County Council to halt this wasteful use of capital funding. If you are against spending five million dollars of county money to fill and level the beautiful knolls and swales of the meadow to develop a flat expanse of ball field and parking lot, please sign below to let your voice be heard. Sponsored by the NFCCA. The Northwood-Four Corners Civic Association represents the residents in North Four Corners, Northwood Park, and Forest Knolls. The NFCCA seeks to represent the interests of every resident in its territory—approximately 1,490 homes in the Four Corners area of Silver Spring.

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