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Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) wants to re-develop a portion of the Carver Educational Services Center (CESC) to accommodate a bus depot that would house more than 100 school buses and would include accommodations for their operators and supervisors.
The proposed site is just 50 feet from a residential neighborhood, which would be subject to excessive noise, light, and exhaust as early as 4:00 am. The depot would add more than 1,000 vehicle trips each day to the already-clogged intersection of Hungerford Drive (Route 355) and Mannakee Street. The additional traffic would overwhelm the intersection and cause significant delays public and private transportation. Overflow traffic would invade neighborhood streets, disrupting out tranquil neighborhoods and have a tremendous negative impact on the City of Rockville and residents in the College Square, Woodley Gardens, West End, College Gardens, and Haiti neighborhoods.
This plan was conceived without performing any impact studies on the effects of noise, light pollution, emissions, stormwater, or traffic. MCPS officials would like to bully this proposal through the City of Rockville and the community despite a united community opposition.
The Carver Coalition consists of local residents who are adamantly opposed to the proposed plan and share the belief that putting a bus depot within 50 ft. of residential housing is wrong, even if financial pressures and poor planning bring schemes like this to vote.
The Carver Coalition asks our elected officials on the Montgomery County Council and Montgomery County Board of Education to take the following steps:
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The proposed site is just 50 feet from a residential neighborhood, which would be subject to excessive noise, light, and exhaust as early as 4:00 am. The depot would add more than 1,000 vehicle trips each day to the already-clogged intersection of Hungerford Drive (Route 355) and Mannakee Street. The additional traffic would overwhelm the intersection and cause significant delays public and private transportation. Overflow traffic would invade neighborhood streets, disrupting out tranquil neighborhoods and have a tremendous negative impact on the City of Rockville and residents in the College Square, Woodley Gardens, West End, College Gardens, and Haiti neighborhoods.
This plan was conceived without performing any impact studies on the effects of noise, light pollution, emissions, stormwater, or traffic. MCPS officials would like to bully this proposal through the City of Rockville and the community despite a united community opposition.
The Carver Coalition consists of local residents who are adamantly opposed to the proposed plan and share the belief that putting a bus depot within 50 ft. of residential housing is wrong, even if financial pressures and poor planning bring schemes like this to vote.
The Carver Coalition asks our elected officials on the Montgomery County Council and Montgomery County Board of Education to take the following steps:
- Eliminate the Carver Educational Services Center as a prospective bus depot site for any and all interim and permanent use.
- Delay the “Declaration of No Further Need” on the Jeremiah Park property (current site of the Shady Grove Transportation Depot where the buses are currently housed) until a permanent solution is found that does not negatively impact City of Rockville residents.
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We say "No" to Bus Depots in any Residential Neighborhoods
