Take Action to Stop it!
There’s a new twist in the Monrovia Town Center development. As you recall in 2015, Frederick County Council sent the MTC proposal back to the Planning Commission to restart the project review process, a huge win for taxpayers who want transparency in government and sound planning based on facts.
However, the developer is making a mockery of the Council’s decision by moving ahead with the process without approval. We believe their strategy is to invest enough that stopping them would elicit their cries of having already spent a lot of money, pity on them will follow and the MTC development would be allowed to move ahead. That is, DESPITE both the public outrage and the council’s decision for sound planning review.
What can we do? Let the Council know that you don’t like what you see!
Please write to the Frederick County Council and ask them to vacate the residential zoning on the property until the proposal has been through the official county revue process. Here is a sample letter which you can copy, edit and sign and send by e-mail:
Send by email.
TO: [email protected], [email protected]
CC: [email protected]_
Dear Council President Otis and fellow County Council members:
I support the Frederick County Council’s decision to send the Monrovia Town Center Planned Unit Development (PUD) zoning case back to the Planning Commission for a restart of the review process. However, I am very upset to learn that the developer continues to defy the Council order for them to reapply, and that they are, in fact, steadily moving forward to vest under the PUD zoning approved by the Board of County Commissioners. With every passing day the PUD zoning remains in effect, the developer is given an opportunity to undermine the Council’s well-considered and proper vote to begin a clean process.
I respectfully ask that the Council clarify for the record the implicit intent of its vote last September to vacate the current PUD zoning. I further encourage the Council to take this action at its earliest possible opportunity, as time is of the essence in this matter.
