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Minutes Rustic Roads Advisory Committee Meeting April 27, 2010 Executive Office Building - Rockville

The Rustic Roads Advisory Committee met on April 27, 2010 to discuss several matters. They approved the minutes from the previous meeting and re-elected Kevin Foster as chair. David Reile and Chuck Graefe submitted a request for Emory Church Road to be designated as a rustic road due to its natural features and low traffic volume. The committee discussed their role in the development review process and how to balance development and preservation of rustic character. They also recommended using a single driveway for a proposed development on Bryants Nursery Road if feasible.

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Minutes Rustic Roads Advisory Committee Meeting April 27, 2010 Executive Office Building - Rockville

The Rustic Roads Advisory Committee met on April 27, 2010 to discuss several matters. They approved the minutes from the previous meeting and re-elected Kevin Foster as chair. David Reile and Chuck Graefe submitted a request for Emory Church Road to be designated as a rustic road due to its natural features and low traffic volume. The committee discussed their role in the development review process and how to balance development and preservation of rustic character. They also recommended using a single driveway for a proposed development on Bryants Nursery Road if feasible.

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MINUTES

RUSTIC ROADS ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEETING


April 27, 2010
Executive Office Building – Rockville

Members: Guests:

Bob Goldberg David M. Reile, resident Emory Church Road


Fred Lechlider Chuck Graefe, Southeast Rural Olney Civic Association
Eric Spates SEROCA
Marc Miller
Robin Ziek
Kevin Foster

Sarah Navid - staff

Absent:
Greg Deaver
Leslie Saville

The meeting began at 7:00 PM.

Minutes – The March 23, 2010 minutes were approved.

Chair – Kevin Foster was re-elected as chair for 2010.

Emory Church Road

David Reile and Chuck Graefe submitted a detailed request for rustic road designation for
Emory Church Road. They illustrated how it meets the rustic roads criteria: natural
features including stands of significant trees some over 100 years and two streams along
the roadside; the Oakdale Emory Church, a historic church, located at the entrance to the
road; compatible zoning (RNC 1 house per 5 acres); and a narrow (14 – 16 feet), low
volume road with no outlet serving a total of 29 single family homes. The 2005 Master
Plan for this area placed the adjacent properties outside the public sewer area.

A Church is currently looking to purchase property along the road and would be required
by DOT to widen through its frontage, thus destroying a portion of the existing roadway
character. Rustic designation might protect the road from modification.

Kevin questioned what the residents along Emory Lane felt about the request for rustic
designation. The Committee needs to understand what the public information process
will be for this particular proposal as well as any others that propose rustic designation.
Page 2, Rustic Roads Advisory Committee Minutes, April 27, 2010

Master Plan of Highways (MPOH)

The Committee re-addressed the issue of existing roads which no longer appear to meet
rustic roads criteria. For instance, Eric pointed out that Stoney Creek Road had some
rustic and forested areas that had value but that overall the residents and commuters
would benefit from de-listing and improving parts of it. Marc felt that calling roads rustic
that are not de-values those that are truly rustic.

Motion: The Committee voted 5 – 1 (Robin) that the recommendations from the
RRAC for the MPOH should include both new roads to be added as well as existing
roads that should be “de-listed.”

Development Review Process

The Committee began a discussion of its role in the development review process which
will be explored further at next month’s meeting when scenic views are on the agenda.
Eric did not believe that the RRAC should be used as an anti-development instrument and
Fred re-iterated that he felt the Committee had gone too far in this regard on occasion.
Robin felt that the Committee could legitimately shape development but not stop it and
Bob thought the RRAC needed to find a middle of the road position. Kevin thought
rustic road designation was more an impedance to development but would not stop it, that
it was more a question of zoning.

Murchison Property

The RRAC recommended that a single common driveway be used to serve the proposed
five lots on Bryants Nursery Road if feasible given the property constraints. Three
driveways are proposed.

The meeting adjourned at 8:45 PM.

Date Approved: May 25, 2010

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