April 12, 2007 Planning Staff Report Online

Late Monday the Montgomery County Planning Department of the Maryland National Capital Park and Planning Commission (MNCPPC) made public the staff report on Ashton Meeting Place (AMP).   The staff report finds AMP to be non-compliant in the areas of

• Zoning Requirements

• Sandy Spring-Ashton Master Plan
• Subdivision Regulations
• Encroachment into wetlands, wetland buffers, and stream valley buffers

• The locations of buildings, structures, and pedestrian and vehicular circulation systems not adequately safe and efficient

The full Staff Report is available at the MNCPPC web site.  It is 94 pages of scanned documents (20 MB) and has been found difficult to print by many people.   The MNCPPC web site offers some tips to help with printing.

In order to help those who have trouble with printing or perhaps do not with to read the entire document, we have extracted the first 23 pages of the staff report (1.8 MB), everything except the attachments.  There are two pictures in the 23-page documents, so we have extracted them and made available separately as the 23 page-document without pictures, the picture for page 3, and picture for page 4.

The documents are all PDF files.  If you do not have Adobe Reader 8, you should obtain it here.  If you do not have a program to view the JPG picture files, a free one is available at www.irfanview.com.

If you need assistance, write to help@ssarpc.org.