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Joint committee approves Clarksburg Library affordable-housing feasibility study; seeks fuller cost and mixed-use analysis
Summary
On Oct. 21 the Montgomery County Council joint committee approved a Department of General Services feasibility study examining co-locating affordable housing with the planned Clarksburg Library under Bill 33-22, while members pressed DGS for clearer cost estimates, "blue-sky" stacked options and details on developer partnerships.
Montgomery County's joint committee on Planning, Housing & Parks and Education & Culture voted Oct. 21 to approve an affordable-housing feasibility study for the Clarksburg Library, but members pressed the Department of General Services for more detailed cost estimates for housing and for explicit scenarios that show stacked mixed-use options.
The study, transmitted under Bill 33-22 (enacted January 2023) and received by the council on Oct. 11, evaluates whether affordable housing can be co-located with the new library at the recently purchased site at the corner of Maryland 355 and Stringtown Road. Council staff recommended the committee approve the analysis as transmitted.
"We really prioritize and continue to prioritize co locating housing that we desperately want and desperately need on public land," said Chair Friedson, who opened the session. Friedson and other members framed the review as part of the council's effort to use scarce county land for affordable housing while protecting library…
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