Success! This ZTA was withdrawn! Thanks to everyone who took action. Your voice made a difference! Be sure to follow along with our friends at Friends of Ten Mile Creek and Little Seneca Reservoir as they continue to steward our water resources.
Our partners at Friends of Ten Mile Creek and Little Seneca Reservoir need your action - please take two minutes to support their action alert - and clean water for all.
On January 17, 2023, the Montgomery County Council will hold a hearing on a Zoning Text Amendment, ZTA 22-12, that would exempt the impervious surfaces of master-planned bikeways from being counted toward the impervious limits that protect the Ten Mile Creek watershed (that's the fragile back up water supply for 4.3 million).
The 2014 Clarksburg master plan was written specifically with strict, science based limits on paved surfaces in this watershed to protect water quality. This proposed ZTA conflicts directly with this master plan.
This is not a bike path vs. clean water choice. We can have both. But the science is clear. The proposed housing and other land developments in Ten Mile Creek, in combination with the bike paths and all other forms of hard surfaces, need to conform to limits previously established by Montgomery County. Any proposed weakening of these protective limits should be rejected.
Take two minutes to take action here.
The 2014 Clarksburg master plan was written specifically with strict, science based limits on paved surfaces in this watershed to protect water quality. This proposed ZTA conflicts directly with this master plan.
This is not a bike path vs. clean water choice. We can have both. But the science is clear. The proposed housing and other land developments in Ten Mile Creek, in combination with the bike paths and all other forms of hard surfaces, need to conform to limits previously established by Montgomery County. Any proposed weakening of these protective limits should be rejected.
Take two minutes to take action here.
