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G. E. Tech
Park Plans
This section is devoted to centralizing information on
Montgomery County's plans to buy the land adjacent to
Kentlands and Lakelands for the purpose of industrial use.
This would destroy the nature of the surrounding communities
which are based on the age-old tradition of the town
concept.
Read Gaithersblog on the G E Tech Park
Rachael Hammoudeh, Frank Anderson, Shelley Sharma, and Neil
Harris of the Concerned Taxpayers of Montgomery County [CTMC]
take petitions signed by nearly 900 county residents to the
Montgomery County Council on Monday, August 3. The CTMC opposes
the county executive's plans to acquire the former National
Geographic property for undisclosed or unrestricted uses.
See Gaithersburg Gazette article at:
http://www.gazette.net/stories/08062008/gaitnew204150_32458.shtml
Also see information below:
Our editorial was
published in early January. It outlines the problems we will
face if the county plans are implemented.
County Plans Threaten 20878 Area
Note: All of the linked past articles are in Adobe
files. If you don't have the Adobe program [it is
a widely recognized program for many files on the web] on
you computer, you can download a free copy here: Click—
Guest editorial in KentLakes
by Robert D. Turner
To send us a Letter
to the Editor, click:
Contact Us
A discussion group has
been started for dealing with this topic. Please join this.
It's very important for everyone to understand how
devastating this could be to our communities as well as to
the concept of architectural new old towns.
Please join
this group; it is very important.
Important articles
which outline the situation are linked below:
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