[adsw-announce] Falkland Apartments at Planning Board, July 10

Preservation (preservation@adsw.org)
Sun, 06 Jul 2008 13:17:18 -0400 

Rescheduled Hearing on Historic Falkland Apartments

On Thursday, July 10, at 3:30 pm, the Montgomery County Planning Board
will hold the previously scheduled public hearing on historic
designation of the New Deal-era Falkland Apartments near downtown Silver
Spring (East-West Highway and 16th Street). Just to remind you, Falkland
is one of the County's most significant historic properties, as the
second large-scale apartment complex in the U.S. to be underwritten by
the Federal Housing Administration. Eleanor Roosevelt cut the ribbon
when Falkland opened in 1937. These National Register-eligible garden
apartments incorporate ample green space and provide human-scale relief
from the high rises going up around Silver Spring.

Unless the Planning Board votes to designate ALL of Falkland, the owner
will be able to proceed with plans to demolish 9 of the 22 acres and
build over 1,000 units of high-rise housing and a Harris Teeter
Supermarket north of East-West Highway. The area is already inundated
with traffic, and this project would aggravate it further and will
impact nearby neighborhoods on both sides of the District line.

We need a strong show of support in the audience in order to convince
the Board to vote for designation. Please come to the hearing on July
10, at 8787 Georgia Avenue in Silver Spring (at Spring Street). As in
previous threats to Falkland over the years, environmental groups,
preservationists, and civic groups are supporting historic designation
and protection of the entire Falkland site. ADSW is scheduled to
testify.

If you are unable to make the hearing and did not do so previously,
please send a short note to Planning Board Chairman Royce Hanson at
mcp-chairman@mncppc-mc.org, urging him and the other Board members to
recommend that the entire Falkland complex be given historic
designation. Please send a copy of your message to ADSW.

For detailed information contact:
Mary Reardon [Mareardon3@yahoo.com]
Silver Spring Historical Society
or call 202-694-5136 or 301-585-7914
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