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Status Report On The Plan

The document provides a status report on the Burtonsville Crossroads Neighborhood Plan. It outlines the plan's vision to transform Burtonsville into a mixed-use rural village with neighborhood retail, restaurants, housing and employment. The plan focuses on improving connectivity through street grids and trails, encouraging design that enhances community character, and protecting the environment. Short term goals include streetscape upgrades and long term goals involve reconstructing roads and fostering redevelopment.

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Status Report On The Plan

The document provides a status report on the Burtonsville Crossroads Neighborhood Plan. It outlines the plan's vision to transform Burtonsville into a mixed-use rural village with neighborhood retail, restaurants, housing and employment. The plan focuses on improving connectivity through street grids and trails, encouraging design that enhances community character, and protecting the environment. Short term goals include streetscape upgrades and long term goals involve reconstructing roads and fostering redevelopment.

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status report on the plan

may 26, 2011

outline

status report on the plan


introduction neighborhood planning scope regional context burtonsville today challenges and opportunities neighborhood plan outreach vision - corridors and focal points planning elements - connectivity - design and land use - environment design guidelines implementation managing expectations schedule

introduction

neighborhood planning scope


authorized by county council small area known issues targeted outreach reduced scope small core team of planners less labor-intensive short list of topics to examine completed in a 12-month timeframe managed expectations first in a series

introduction

regional context
burtonsville and other places in the region
north eastern gateway highway access park and ride- bus near multiple housing, transit and employment centers: - montgomery county - howard county - prince georges
Rockville 25 minutes FDA 15 minutes Silver Spring 20 minutes Baltimore 30 minutes

Columbia 20 minutes

LaurelFt. Meade 20 minutes

introduction

burtonsville today

introduction

challenges and opportunities


SHAs md 28/md198 corridor improvement study (2016+)

anchor + ten vacancies at the c-1 zoned burtonsville crossing site


vacancies in see through office buildings in o-m zoned land e/w traffic on md198 and the future impacts of the federal base realignment and closure (BRAC) at fort meade in laurel.

icc/md200
future bus rapid transit along us29 east county science center plan/fda

introduction

challenges and opportunities


major highways
198 can be transform into a main street with street trees and lighting. old us 29 or burtonsville boulevard can be narrowed and a linear park can be planned.

variety of streets
create an expanded range of street types .The streets range from three lane retail streets (one parking lane) to a two-way retail street.

traffic
Grid of Streets
establish a grid of interconnected streets that will provide better connections. The grid system should improve access for vehicles, pedestrians, and bicyclists.

intersections
create intersections with crosswalks to improve pedestrian. require substantial streetscaping with street trees, street lights, and street furniture to establish an urban environment for pedestrians.

long blocks
establish a system of short blocks to expand the pedestrian access in the crossroads area. The short blocks will create a foreground for street oriented buildings

short blocks
Establish a system of short blocks to expand the pedestrian access throughout the commercial area. The short blocks will create a foreground for street oriented buildings

neighborhood plan

neighborhood planning scope


the burtonsville plan will address: specific land uses street right-of-way and connections zoning issues

neighborhood plan

outreach
january may 2011 provided regular status reports to the eccab land use subcommittee at their monthly meetings and held meetings with business owners and stakeholders conducted a charrette with the eccab held a workshop with residents, meetings with property owners held an open house on plan highlights

february 2011 march 2011

may 2011

neighborhood plan

vision
burtonsville will be
a mixed-use, rural village in upper east county filled with neighborhood retail, restaurants, housing and employment. The burtonsville crossroads area will continue to offer a mix of ethnic restaurants and community-friendly convenience retail as a connected and walkable village center.
BURTONSVILLE BOULEVARD DISTRICT EAST

BURTONSVILLE BOULEVARD DISTRICT WEST

the

neighborhood plan

planning elements
connectivity (infrastructure, access, health)
improving connectivity within the commercial area integrating the md 198 and access road improvements recommending other transportation infrastructure improvements

design/land use (economy, knowledge, social)


advancing the goals of sustainability addressing the character of the streets, open space and buildings improving quality of place

environment (ecology, energy, food)


improving the natural environment through redevelopment

neighborhood plan

planning elements
connectivity

md 98 as main street (120 row) new median


sidewalks/crosswalks/hiker/ biker trail street trees pedestrian-scaled lighting stormwater management)

connectivity

access road/retail service road (60 row)


on-street parking, special paving plantings stormwater management closure for special events

pedestrian and vehicle connections street grid park/trail connections to fairland park narrow burtonsville boulevard/old 29

neighborhood plan

planning elements
land use and design housing and commercial mixed uses (not to exceed 1997 zoning) redevelopment on the burtonsville crossing site - prominent open space - civic focal point - park-and-ride landscaped gateways and intersections - md 198 and old us 29 - old columbia pike/school access road pocket park in the main street district open space/park in burtonsville boulevard west with any future redevelopment of the town square shopping center site

land use and design


BURTONSVILLE BOULEVARD DISTRICT EAST

BURTONSVILLE BOULEVARD DISTRICT WEST

neighborhood plan

planning elements
environment

design large and small green spaces into redevelopment in each district to reduce imperviousness

environment

remove the northbound lane of old us 29 and replant as a linear park


protect and restore the existing stream and stream valley buffer maximize tree canopy cover

Design Guidelines

Burtonsville Crossroads Neighborhood Plan

May 26, 2011

Design Guidelines
Master Plan

Burtonsville Crossroads Neighborhood Plan

Zoning Ordinance

Road Code

Subdivision Regulations

Environmental Regulations

Design Guidelines Vision Neighborhood Character Districts Locate Design Elements Elements Plan Review Connectivity Environment Design

Sketch Plan/ Project Plan


Site Plan

Board Approval

Design Guidelines

Community Patterns

Middleburg: Route 50 1740

Chevy Chase: Connecticut Avenue 1891

Germantown Town Center: Century Boulevard 1990

Design Guidelines

Community Patterns - connectivity (infrastructure, access, health)


Connecticut Avenue, Chevy Chase Main Street, Germantown Main Street, Middleburg Streets: Main Street: 4 - 6 lanes Local Streets: Narrow, 2 lanes and on-street parking

Design Guidelines

Community Patterns - environment (ecology, energy, food)


Connecticut Avenue, Chevy Chase Main Street, Germantown Main Street, Middleburg Open Spaces :

Open Space focal points Open space between buildings Varied streetscape

Design Guidelines

Community Patterns - design/land use (economy, knowledge, social)


Connecticut Avenue, Chevy Chase Main Street, Germantown Main Street, Middleburg Design: 2 - 4 Story Main Street Variety of building heights Street oriented buildings Retail and Institutional Buildings

Design Guidelines

Burtonsville Crossroads Neighborhood Plan


spencerville road (md 198) old columbia pike retail connector street local streets

TC
public open spaces/ focal points intersection enhancement

ES

Parks/open space TC transit center ES elementary school

Design Guidelines
Main Street/MD 198 District

Burtonsville Crossroads Neighborhood Plan

Design Guidelines
Village Center District

Burtonsville Crossroads Neighborhood Plan

implementation

managing expectations
short term expectations mixed use everywhere
private and public money into site upgrades - buildings along the north side targeted by dhca - landscaping/tree canopy - burtonsville crossing site, phase I - ground floor retail in office park - additional access into burtonsville town square shopping center retail access road back on countys cip and redesigned

long term expectations reconstruct md198 with intersection improvements


retail access road built with pocket park(s) burtonsville boulevard gets narrowed north w/ linear park retail street grid with redevelopment mix of land uses (retail, services, employment , housing) full-scale redevelopment of burtonsville crossing site

implementation

schedule
planning board briefing completion of the staff draft planning board public hearing county executive and county council may 26, 2011 november 2011 december 2011 january 2012

http://www.montgomeryplanning.org/community/burtonsville

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