anchor Description
This project provides a new local park on a 25 acre tract of undeveloped parkland at 12525 Glen Road, Potomac. Facilities will include a regulation soccer/football field with spectator areas, a single basketball/multi use court, a single grass volleyball court, a playground, asphalt loop path and pedestrian connections, central seating and entrance feature, picnic table areas, gazebo, 70 space parking area, portable toilets, bioretention stormwater management facilities, landscaping, and other miscellaneous amenities.
anchor Justification
This new park was proposed in the Potomac Subregion Master Plan approved and adopted in 2002. The 1998 Park, Recreation and Open Space Master Plan identified the Travilah planning area as having some of the highest unmet recreational needs in the County, specifically identifying the need for ballfields, basketball courts, and playgrounds in this planning area. The Montgomery County Planning Board approved the park facility plan on September 8, 2005. Greenbriar will provide many new facilities estimated as needed by the 2005 Land Preservation, Parks and Recreation Plan, specifically a playground, basketball court and a new soccer field. This park is essential as it is one of the few locations where new fields in the area can be placed.
anchorFiscal Note
In FY14, transferred in $401,000 ($248k Park and Planning Bonds + $153k Program Open Space) from Darnestown Square LP #098704 ($161k) and Takoma-Piney Branch LP #078707 ($240K). In 2005, the Planning Board approved the utilization of $300,000 contribution funding for construction of a proposed regulation soccer field at Greenbriar Local Park in honor of William H. Hussmann, in fulfillment of a requirement of the 2002 Approved and Adopted Potomac Subregion Master Plan, which states the following, Dedicate sufficient land for a regulation size soccer field on this site or elsewhere in the subregion or, in the alternative, provide funding in lieu of land.
anchorDisclosures
A pedestrian impact analysis has been completed for this project.
M-NCPPC asserts that this project conforms to the requirement of relevant local plans, as required by the Maryland Economic Growth, Resource Protection and Planning Act.
anchorCoordination
Montgomery County Department of Permitting Services, Montgomery County Department of Transportation