anchor Description
This project renovates the existing 25.35-acre Hillandale Local Park. The plan removes and/or renovates deteriorating facilities and reconfigures the park to improve access and circulation. Project scope was updated for the FY19-24 CIP to include the following elements: demolition of the Hillandale office building in order to provide an improved, safer, and realigned park entrance and reconfigured roadway, additional parking, shared use trail and frontage improvements along New Hampshire Avenue, hard surface internal trail loop, restroom facility, improved full-size soccer field, multi-age playground, one picnic shelter, two basketball courts with lighting, stormwater management facilities, and landscaping.
anchorEstimated Schedule
Design ongoing, construction ongoing FY22.
anchorCost Change
FY23 addition of $800k of Program Open Space funding to address cost increases.
anchor Justification
The park facility plan was approved by the Montgomery County Planning Board on July 9, 2015. Specific recommendations for the renovation of this park are included in the White Oak Science Gateway Master Plan, approved and adopted July 2014. Additional applicable recommendations are included in the Countywide bikeways functional master plan (2005), vision 2030 strategic plan for parks and recreation, Montgomery County, Maryland (2011), and the 2012 Park Recreation and Open Space (PROS) plan.
anchorOther
A pedestrian impact analysis has been completed for this project.
anchorDisclosures
A pedestrian impact analysis will be performed during design or is in progress.
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
The project requires coordination with the Hillandale volunteer fire station to ensure that access and Entrance requirements for the fire station are met. The removal of the Hillandale office building requires coordination with the timing of staff relocation to the Wheaton headquarters building.