Comments on: Transit center gets no love from planners

By: The Silver Spring Penguin | News, Views, Stuff » » Transit center gets green light from planning board

Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:38:43 +0000

[...] Board commissioners previously refused to give up the parkland, saying they did not want aesthetic elements scratched for the sake of slimming the project’s budget. [...]

By: Pennster

Pennster — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 15:01:19 +0000

Haha, well I actually love working here. The people in the Planning Department are in fact brilliant people who generally share many of our own concerns in terms of smarter and denser development in downtown Silver Spring. It’s the Planning Board and County Council that need a giant kick in the butt.

Here’s this for a start?

http://www.examiner.com/a-793665~Planning_board_applicants_blast_growth_policy.html

I would be glad to help you look out for information or hints about what is happening in Silver Spring that my supervisors wouldn’t be concerned about releasing to the public.

By: The Silver Spring Penguin | News, Views, Stuff » » The Early Bird

The Silver Spring Penguin | News, Views, Stuff » » The Early Bird — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 13:13:24 +0000

[...] The planning board irons out details of the Silver Spring Transit Center. The discussion drops at planning board HQ (8787 Georgia Ave) during the 1:00 p.m. [...]

By: ThayerAvenue.com » We’re somebody!

ThayerAvenue.com » We’re somebody! — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 02:09:39 +0000

[...] the transit center is scheduled for 2009 completion.” Heh. After reading that savvy Silver Spring Penguin the other day, it’ll be interesting to see how close that is. And what the final product will [...]

By: Jennifer Deseo

Jennifer Deseo — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 21:51:09 +0000

It wouldn’t pay anything.

However, you could be issued The Penguin’s official license to chill. It works against cantankerous bosses, tight-fisted office managers and generally anyone out to ruin your day.

By: Pennster

Pennster — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 20:45:47 +0000

How much does it pay? :P

By: Jennifer Deseo

Jennifer Deseo — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 02:00:18 +0000

Hey Pennster, want a job as a Penguin spy?

By: Pennster

Pennster — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 01:48:25 +0000

What happened? Ike Leggett happened, that’s what; the new politically anti-development county council happened. Royce Hanson is the planning board director who was supposed to come in and fix things, and he’s been a huge disappointment to me so far. I’m now working in the Planning Dept as an intern for the summer, so hopefully I’ll get to plead the case more from behind-the-scenes.

By: Silver Springer

Silver Springer — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 22:19:31 +0000

Looks like the planning board is finally echoing my concerns about the half-assed transit center, which I wrote about back in August 2006.
http://silverspringscene.com/blog/2006/08/18/silver-spring-transit-center-a-disaster-in-the-making/

But it's going to take more than streetscaping and lamps to redeem this project. It’s not even LEED certified (they axed that part too). If Montgomery County lets WMATA and Foulger Pratt put up some Value brand transit center you can bet they’ll be lots o tax payer money going into fixing this mess.

What ever happened to doing something right the first time?