Neighborhood Street Party

Hard Times Café and Carmen’s Italian Ice are sponsoring a “Neighborhood Street Party” on Saturday June 5^th, from 7 pm to 11 pm. This is one of the ways they “give back” to the community that supports them. This Street Party will feature musical entertainment by a local band, The Digits. Hard Times and Carmen’s will offer cheap eats (burger, dogs, beer, wine, sodas, and ice cream) at reduced prices for outdoor consumption.

The upper half of the parking lot will be blocked off (no cars) for pedestrians. Last year they hosted the same event; it drew approximately 350 people, many entire families.

Chestnut Lodge Meeting Announcement

Streetscape Partners, LLC will be working in conjunction with the owner of the Chestnut Lodge property (Chestnut Lodge Properties, Inc.) to build out a portion of the remaining new single family lots that were approved pursuant to Exploratory Application PRU2005-00022 and Detailed Application PRU2006-0022A. Streetscape Partners LLC has submitted to the City of Rockville additional architectural elevations for the new single family detached homes proposed to be constructed on the Chestnut Lodge property for review and approval. Please note that no changes to the approved Detailed Site Plan in terms of lot configuration, lot size, layout, project amenities, landscaping and/or other requirements are being proposed.

A special community meeting will be held (hosted by the West End Citizen's Association) to provide you an opportunity to become fully aware of the development intentions and to give you an opportunity to comment on the proposed elevations. The community meeting will be held on Thursday, May 13th at 7:00PM in the Mayor and Council Chambers at City Hall, located at 100 Maryland Avenue, Rockville, Maryland 20850. At this meeting the representatives of Streetscape Partners will make every effort to illustrate how the property will be developed and to answer any questions.

In addition, two (2) public meetings will be held by the City on this matter the first by the Historic District Commission on Thursday, May 20th at 7:30pm, and the second by the Planning Commission on Wednesday, June 23rd at 7:00pm. Prior to the Planning Commission's review for approval, the Historic District Commission will be providing a Courtesy Review of the proposed house designs to be located adjacent to the historic districts. Members of the public will have an opportunity to make comments and/or otherwise address the commissions at the meetings, both of which will also be held in the Mayor and Council Chambers at City Hall.

Questions can be directed to Soo Lee-Cho of Miller, Miller and Canby, who is representing StreetScape Partners, LLC. Her number is (301) 762-5212.