Brickyard Site No Longer Slated for Soccer Fields
The county school board voted to cancel its lease of the Brickyard site in Potomac with the county, which had planned to develop the site with soccer fields.
The Brickyard Road property in Potomac—owned by Montgomery County Public Schools and leased for use as an organic farm for the past three decades—is no longer being considered for lease to the county, which intended to turn it into soccer fields, MCPS announced Tuesday night. In a letter to the county school board on Tuesday, Montgomery County Executive Isiah Leggett (D) wrote that the county was relinquishing the county's lease on the site, and that the county no longer intends to develop the property for recreational purposes. The site—once slated for a middle school—has been the focus of months of controvery and legal wrangling. A group of Potomac activists, residents and farm supporters want the site to be maintained as an organic farm…
In this Article:
Twang
1:02 pm on Monday, February 25, 2013
Congratulations to the folks in Potomac. This happened in Olney a few years ago. A BOE school site on Bowie Mill road was transferred to a developer. No public notice was given. Even the people involved in the master planning process were blindsided. Once we found out, it was too late too change it. Now they are building low-income housing on the site. more ›