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I just noticed in the current legal notices on the City’s website the announcement of a public hearing on an application for a sketch plan amendment on the property owned by the Humane Society of the United States up at the end of Professional Drive. The application calls for six-to-twelve story office and residential buildings on ten acres of land: This property is nestled right in the corner of the proposed Casey East development, labeled property 5 in this photo from the Casey East project (Casey East is property 7 in the photo).

At this time there are no background materials that I can find on the City’s website.

Notice - Joint Public Hearing Z-306, 9/4/2007
Posted 8/17/2007

CITY OF GAITHERSBURG
31 South Summit Avenue
Gaithersburg, Maryland 20877

Telephone: 301-258-6330

NOTICE OF JOINT PUBLIC HEARING

The City of Gaithersburg Mayor and Council and Planning Commission will conduct a public hearing at the time and place noted below.

Meeting: MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL MEETING

Application Type: SKETCH PLAN AMENDMENT
File Number: Z-306
Location: 700 Professional Drive
Applicant: HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES

Zoning: MXD (MIXED USE DEVELOPMENT)
Day/ Date/Time: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, AT 7:30 P.M.
Place: GAITHERSBURG CITY HALL

IMPORTANT

The application requests an amendment to an existing sketch plan, for approximately 10.49 acres of property on the HSUS property. The site is located east of I-270, south of Professional Drive and north of future Watkins Mill Road extended. The application proposes up to 300,000 sq. ft. of office development in structures between 6 and 12 stories, up to 250 and 300 residential units in structures between 6 and 12 stories, and structured parking. This is a joint public hearing which allows the public an opportunity to participate and comment on the request. Contact the Planning and Code Administration City Planner (listed below) at 301-258-6330 if you should have any questions and/or to learn more about this process and your ability to offer testimony and input.

CITY OF GAITHERSBURG
Jacqueline Marsh, Planner

Planning and Code Administration

LOCATION MAP
700 Professional Drive

Kathleen Miller and Dena Levitz write in the Examiner:

A key piece of identification given to several thousand immigrants in Montgomery County that can be used to help enroll children in school is being issued without proof of residency in the county, immigrant advocates said. Leaders of immigrant advocacy group CASA of Maryland estimate the organization has provided more than 10,000 immigrants with “CASA of Maryland” identification cards over the past 10 years.

“We have a challenge,” [CASA director of services Maria] Paige said. “We ask people to provide address proof but a lot of immigrants don’t even rent anything more than a sofa or a bed that somebody else sleeps in during the night and they sleep in during the day.”

CASA officials say they have agreements with Montgomery and Prince George’s County and Washington, D.C. police departments to accept their cards as valid identification during routine stops.