We have just learned that the Planning Board without adequate notice has put our Petition on its Agenda for Thursday. We urgently need your emails to the Planning Board before this Thursday, January 28th.
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The Planning Board hearing for the proposed Pulte Development is now scheduled for December 3, 2020. This hearing will determine the development plans that Pulte has put forward. Your letters and support for the preservation of the Ten Mile Creek Watershed are truly needed if we have any chance of reducing this poorly conceived development.
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We advise that we act guided by careful planning that integrates the role advancing technology with the stewardship of our invaluable natural systems, our productive lands. We trust that the health, the resilience of our local food/fiber system will feature in this plan now being developed and nearing completion by a range of knowledgeable stakeholders and paid contractor.
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SILVER SPRING, MARYLAND - Friends of Ten Mile Creek will testify before the Montgomery County Planning Board on Thursday June 13, in support of proposed updates to the Guidelines for Environmental Management of Development in Montgomery County.
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On December 17, 2014, the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission (WSSC) held a public meeting announcing a set of potential options for providing sewer service to the limited amount of development allowed in the Ten Mile Creek watershed.
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In November 2014, Pulte Homes, one of the primary developers in the Ten Mile Creek watershed, filed a lawsuit against Montgomery County and the Maryland National Capital Park and Planning Commission over the Ten Mile Creek Limited Master Plan Amendment alleging that the County Council and planners illegally limited construction on its property. Read more in this Washington Post article.
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