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Glenarden reviews conceptual police station design; council asked to authorize detailed design and RFP drafting
Summary
City consultants presented a conceptual two-story, ~10,000-square-foot police station sited on an almost 3-acre parcel near City Hall. Councilmembers questioned the green roof, stormwater management, and next steps; staff asked the council to direct administration to draft a resolution and an RFP to move to detailed design.
Consultants from Charles P. Johnson & Associates presented a conceptual design for a new Glenarden Police Department building and asked the Glenarden City Council whether to authorize staff to begin the detailed design and draft an RFP for construction.
The presentation, given by Kim Truong of Charles P. Johnson and Associates and joined by program manager Robin Barnhart and architect Mohammed Shamim, summarized a site-selection process that favored a nearly 3-acre parcel across from the existing City Hall. "The site is quite large," Truong said, noting it had few environmental restrictions, no floodplain or streams, and no existing buildings to demolish. She said the second site considered — a smaller parcel adjacent to businesses and a church — presented steeper slopes, stream buffers, potential critical habitat and more permitting constraints from the Maryland Department of Transportation State Highway Administration (SHA).
Consultants presented a building program of roughly 10,000 gross square feet and a two-story facility with a 6,500-square-foot footprint. The plan includes secured…
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