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Rockville

City of Rockville Public is Seeking Input on Pedestrian Master Plan

By MCS Staff

The city is developing its first Pedestrian Master Plan and wants community members to help make Rockville a safer place for walking and rolling. The plan will guide the development, construction and maintenance of safe, convenient and equitable walking and rolling facilities across the city. “Walking and rolling” describes forms of mobility that do not include motor vehicles or bicycles. This includes walking; running; walking with the use of a white cane, audio-assistance device or walker; or using a wheelchair, knee-walker, mobility scooter or stroller.

Learn more about development of Rockville’s Pedestrian Master Plan and find a draft for review at engagerockville.com/pedestrian-master-plan. The city wants to hear from the community about the plan. What in the plan works well to advance walking and rolling in Rockville? What changes are still needed? What is missing?

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Rockville

Rockville: Tales of a Fourth Grade Mayor

By MCS Staff

Rockville welcomed Joyce Tian, pictured in the Mayor and Council chambers, winner of the “If I Were Mayor…” essay contest, to City Hall on May 25 (video below).

Tian, a fourth-grader at Beall Elementary School, earned the right to serve as Rockville’s Mayor for a Day, doing an on-camera interview with Rockville 11, visiting the Rockville City Police Department, the Department of Public Works Equipment Show and Croydon Creek Nature Center, and having lunch with Mayor Bridget Donnell Newton. She was also recognized at the May 22 Mayor and Council meeting, where she read her winning essay.

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MoCo

Blair’s All-Time Leading Scorer, Brian Magid, Has High Praise For MoCo Native/NBA’s Josh Hart

By MCS Staff

Brian Magid is a Montgomery County legend when it comes to basketball. Considered one of the greatest shooter ever to play in Montgomery County, he led the Blazers to the County and State Championships during his senior year in 1975. He’s the school’s all-time leading scorer.  Magid went on to play for the University of Maryland and George Washington University and was later drafted by the Indiana Pacers before playing professional basketball in Israel. Earlier this year, the Blazer legend had high praise for New York Knicks G/F and fellow MoCo native, Josh Hart.

Josh Hart grew up in Silver Spring. Prior to transferring to Sidwell Friends in D.C., he attended and played basketball at Wheaton High School. He grew up playing basketball for the Montgomery County Bearcats, where his coaches praised him for his heart at an early age. He made the varsity basketball team as a freshman at Wheaton, eventually becoming a starter in the second half of the season. Even though he transferred to Sidwell Friends and played there the last three years of his high school basketball career, his ties to MoCo remained strong. His mother has been a long-time employee at Woodmont Country Club in Rockville and his father is a retired caterer. Below, you’ll see what Brian Magid had to say:

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MoCo History

Peerless Presents the History of the Railroad and Explores Public Art in Rockville

By MCS Staff

Learn how the railroad changed Montgomery County and explore public art with Peerless Rockville in July and August. Historian Susan C. Soderberg’s illustrated presentation, “From Corn to Commuters: How the Coming of the Railroad Changed the Way of Life and the Future of Montgomery County,” explores how a branch line became the mainstay of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad and evolved into our present-day commuter and freight line.

The free presentation, the latest installment of the Glenview Mansion and Peerless Rockville Speaker Series, will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday, July 13 at Glenview Mansion at Rockville Civic Center Park, 603 Edmonston Drive. It features the railroad stations designed by E. Francis Baldwin, extraordinary feats of engineering such as the curving trestle over Little Seneca Creek and the Bollman Truss viaduct over the Monocacy River, and new suburban and agricultural towns spawned by this catapult into the Industrial Age.

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City of Rockville Honors Two Community Members for Environmental Excellence

By MCS Staff

The Mayor and Council and the Environment Commission honored two community members in June with Environmental Excellence Awards recognizing contributions to Rockville’s environmental health and sustainability.

Rishi Iyer, a student at Thomas Wootton High School, received the Environmental Excel-lence Award for Outstanding Education and Academic Achievement for developing an online carbon footprint tool for Montgomery County Public Schools in Rockville and beyond. (“Rockville Reports” readers might remember Iyer as Rockville’s “Mayor for a Day” in 2016.)

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Montgomery Planning

Takoma Park Minor Master Plan Public Hearing to Take Place on Thursday, September 14

By MCS Staff

Per the City of Takoma Park: The Montgomery County Planning Board will hold a public hearing on Thursday, September 14, 2023, at 6 pm for community input on the Takoma Park Minor Master Plan Amendment at the Maryland-National Park and Planning Commission’s Wheaton Headquarters on the 2nd floor Auditorium. There will be a virtual option through the Planning Board’s website. The Public Hearing will also be livestreamed at the City of Takoma Park’s Community Center for the public to watch and provide testimony.

Sign-up to testify at the Public Hearing: In addition to testifying in person or via Microsoft Teams, residents may also email testimony to [email protected], fax testimony to the Planning Board Chair at 301-495-1320, or mail written testimony to: Chair, Montgomery County Planning Board, 2425 Reedie Drive, 14th Floor, Wheaton, MD 20902.

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Events

Poolesville and the UMCVFD’s Annual Independence Day Celebration With Fireworks Display to Take Place on July 4

By MCS Staff

Per the Town of Poolesville: The Annual 4th of July fireworks display will be held on July 4th, with gates opening starting at 5 PM with food trucks and live music. The fireworks themselves will begin at dusk. The Upper Montgomery County Volunteer Fire Department (UMCVD), puts on this event, which is sponsored by the Town of Poolesville. Additional information below:

Location: 15598 Hughes Rd, Poolesville, MD 20837

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Rockville

Radon Rental Testing Requirement to Begin in Late September For Rockville

By MCS Staff

Per the City of Rockville: An ordinance that will require specific rental properties in the city to be tested for the presence of radon will go into effect Sept. 27. Radon is an invisible, odorless, tasteless, radioactive gas found in soil and rock, formed by the natural decay of uranium. While no immediate symptoms signal its presence, exposure at high levels can cause cancer. Testing is the only way to know a home’s radon levels.

The testing requirement will apply to all units in a rental facility in contact with the ground, including basement apartments and any dwelling unit with a basement, crawl spaces or units built on a slab in contact with the ground. Landlords will be required to conduct a radon test before leasing a qualifying dwelling unit.

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Gaithersburg

City of Gaithersburg Independence Day Closures and Recycling

By MCS Staff

Most City facilities & offices are closed on July 4, 2023, in observance Independence Day, with the exception of the following:

There is no fireworks display on July 4. The City fireworks display will take place at SummerFest on July 1 (raindate for fireworks only is July 2). Check the City’s website regularly for updates and follow us @GaithersburgEvents on Facebook and @GburgMD on Facebook & Twitter.

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Rockville

Rockville Program to Prevent Stormwater Pollution Earns Award

By MCS Staff

A city of Rockville program that seeks to stop commercial facilities from polluting storm drains and streams recently took high honors in the Chesapeake Stormwater Network’s Best Urban BMP in the Bay Awards. Better known as the BUBBAs, the program bestows the prestigious regional awards every other year on stormwater projects using BMPs, or best management practices.

Rockville’s Reimaging Illicit Discharge Detection and Elimination program earned second place in the Innovative Stormwater Permit Implementation category. The category recognizes innovations in administering stormwater permits, which limit the type and volume of pollutants that can be discharged into waterways.

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Rockville

Baltimore Rd Construction Concludes in Rockville

By MCS Staff

Improvements Create Safer East-West Corridor for Walkers, Rollers, Riders and Drivers

Per the City of Rockville: A long-planned major road project crossed the finish line in late spring as the city completed construction of improvements to Baltimore Road. The project makes the connection between Rockville Town Center and the city’s east side more convenient, safe and accessible for pedestrians, bicyclists and motorists. The improvements, which span more than a mile-and-a-half, create a more consistent roadway design, add pedestrian safety measures at several intersections and offer easier access to the Rockville Metro station.

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