Leggett, others want Maryland to invest in Montgomery.
Montgomery County officials pressed state leaders to support efforts to resolve the county's transportation problems. "We will not go anywhere unless we solve the transportation problem, and we need the state to help us," County Executive Ike Leggett said. Leggett spoke at the Committee for Montgomery breakfast at the Montgomery County Conference Center, where members of the Montgomery County Council and the delegation to the General Assembly shared the message that state investments in the county pay good dividends. "For just as it was once said that what is good for General Motors is good for America, I am not alone in saying what is good for Montgomery County is good for the state of Maryland," Council President Roger Berliner said. In …
Navarro approved as vice president.
The Montgomery County Council elected Councilmember Roger Berliner as its next president on Tuesday, choosing Councilmember Nancy Navarro as vice president. Berliner, who succeeds outgoing Council President Valerie Ervin, said Montgomery County's work to regain fiscal stability is not yet done, and that the county will face budgetary, transportation and environmental challenges in the future. "If we are to meet these challenges, we will have to meet the hardest of them all: becoming change agents rather than servants of the status quo," he said. "We need to introduce new words into our county’s business model, words like nimble, bold, entrepreneurial." Navarro, who represents District 4, is the county's first Hispanic female vice …
Berliner: 'We simply must do better' than the proposal for Pike Center.
County Councilman Roger Berliner is vowing to block a Wal-Mart proposed for the Pike Center, saying the store is a bad fit for Rockville Pike. Berliner (D-Dist. 1) of Potomac stated his opposition to the store in a letter sent Monday to Chevy Chase-based JBG Rosenfeld. (The letter can be found in the PDF at the right of this article.) The developer is seeking to build an 80,000-square-foot Wal-Mart at the retail center between Twinbrook Parkway and Randolph Road. JBG reportedly plans to request that the site be rezoned from commercial to mixed-use in 2013 in order to allow 200 to 250 apartments to be built there. “I remain deeply concerned that your proposed development of the site with an 80,000 square foot single story Walmart 1500 feet …
Richard Holden
9:38 am on Saturday, December 17, 2011
Don't invest in an incompetently run county. There are major transportation problems in Montgomery County. Look at Route 27 which is in gridlock in either direction during the mprning and evening rush hours and look at the number of homes just north of Brink Road and Route 27 that are getting ready to be built. Where are the roads to accomodate the additional traffic? Solution: Leggett needs to … more ›