NOTELY DEVELOPMENT
Hi Neighbors,
After a disappointing presentation from the Notley Rd Townhouses developer on 7/15, the consensus from the 150+ attendees was to hire Attorney Michele Rosenfeld.
Michele’s website: https://www.marylandpropertylaw.com/
Michele was the Attorney for the MoCo Planning Board 1987-2006.
We are fundraising to have Michele complete Phase 1:
- Review the extensive Developer Application for red flags/disqualifications.
- Engage an engineer to review of the storm water mgmt. plan for deficiencies.
- Guide the community through her thoughts & offer counsel as to what she suggests for next steps.
Cost: Michele’s time: $2500, Engineer study $1500.
FIRST GOAL: $4,000 by Friday 7/25 (or sooner - I’ll update by email once we meet goal)
- Extra money will be saved for Phase 2 if we decide to hire for planning board meetings or for other expenses (e.g. purchasing t-shirts, yard signs, etc.)
3 options to pay (Suggested donation $50-$100):
(1) Check/Electronic Check: Payable to GCCA (stands for Greater Colesville Citizen’s Ass’n)
*****MEMO LINE MUST SAY: NOTLEY RD LEGAL****
Mail to: GCCA
PO Box 4087
Colesville, MD 20914 (note this zip code is correct)
(2) https://greatercolesville.org/join Find PayPAL option the website one time Donate. notate your money is for Notley Rd Legal (some of your donation would be siphoned off for the PayPAL fee):
(3) Venmo a friend who will write a check and follow step (1) or Venmo Kyle Smiddie and he’ll write the check. Kyle’s Venmo is: @Ksmiddie (put in the notes “Notley Rd Legal”). The last 4 digits of Kyle's phone number are 5195.
Thank you!
Terry Sitz, Kyle Smiddie, Dan Wilhelm, Marguerite Raaen, Kiki Corey, Mark Panko on behalf of many many others
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MORE DETAILS WILL FOLLOW FOR YOU ABOUT THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT IN A LONGER EMAIL
For basic background:
The Greater Colesville Citizens Association (GCCA) has learned that developers are applying for a zoning change to land in the area of Notley Road and New Hampshire Avenue. A change that would allow them to build 150 townhouses on eight acres of land where now there are a handful of houses and open land.
On July 15, the GCCA Board and 150 additional Colesville residents asked the developer, Ryan Stuart to meet and address these important concerns about their proposed development. Their answers were disappointing to say the least.
The developer’s proposal has lots of documents which are going to be reviewed by attorney Michele Rosenfeld hired by GCCA. So, you do not need to review these documents. But everyone is welcome to review them.
You can find the documents here at the Development Activity Information Center (DAIC): https://eplans.montgomeryplanning.org/daiclinks/pdoxlinks.aspx?apno=H159&projname=Notley%20Road
For starters, here are 3 documents from that DAIC website:
- H-159 10.ix. Notley Road Surrounding Neighborhood Plan.pdf(good map)
- H-159 10.i.b. Notley Road FZP02.pdf(good map showing townhouses)
- H-159 4. Notley Road Land Use Report.pdf(summary report – 24 pages)
In the future, emails will come from notley.townhouses@gmail.com. I, Kyle Smiddie, will run this email. For those who don’t know me, my backyard will look directly across Notley Rd and into these proposed townhouses.