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Residents urge rejection or redrafting of University Boulevard overlay during packed hearing
Summary
At a public hearing on ZTA 25-12, dozens of residents and civic groups urged the council to remove proposed CRN upzoning, citing displacement risk, loss of tree canopy, stormwater and traffic impacts and insufficient community outreach; Planning Board staff stressed pedestrian funding priorities.
The Montgomery County Council heard hours of public testimony Oct. 28 on Zoning Text Amendment 25-12, which would create a University Boulevard overlay zone to implement the University Boulevard Corridor (UBC) plan.
Benjamin Burbert, representing the Montgomery County Planning Board, presented the board's technical comments, clarifying duplex and site-coverage standards and saying the planning board's climate assessment found no countywide change in greenhouse-gas metrics because the overlay implements master-plan recommendations. Burbert…
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