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Greater Shady Grove Civic Alliance

Meeting:  Wednesday May 27, 2009   8:00pm
Mill Creek Towne Elementary School, 17700 Park Mill Drive, in the All Purpose Room

Topic:  Laytonia Park and other Neighborhood issues

At the May meeting of the Greater Shady Grove Civic Alliance there will be a presentation on the status of  Laytonia Park. Laytonia Park is planned for the corner of Shady Grove and Muncaster Mill Road. Kim Paniati from Park and Planning will be coming to show the community what is being planned for the park, including  ball fields and other community uses.  She will provide a timetable for the Park's implementation. We will also have Ernie Lansford from the County who will discuss the plan for the animal shelter which is scheduled to be placed on a part of the Laytonia Park property.   


Additional Community Concerns

Other issues of concern within the community can also be raised at the meeting.

A recent letter from a community member raised two concerns with road problems in our community. Below is a copy of the letter that was sent:

I am concerned about two traffic problems in our community.
 
First, it the dangerous bypass from the exit ramp from 370 leaving Shady Grove metro station, adjacent to our community, to Shady Grove Road going East.  The road was fine before the Transportation Department changed the road. It is presently far too sharp a turn for the driver exiting 370 to see oncoming traffic on Shady Grove Road.  Almost every day there is nearly an accident, especially at Rush hour. Please review this situation and return the road to a more gradual turn exiting 370.
 
Second, the road needs to be widened at the intersection of Needwood Road and Muncaster Mill Road.  All the metro traffic and traffic going to Magruder High School is unable to negotiate this turn because there is no right turn lane at this intersection.  As a result, tremendous bottlenecks occur with traffic and the traffic backup a long distance. Any car that plans to turn left to go to Bowie Mill road and to go left on Muncaster Mill road stops all traffic from turning right onto Muncaster mill road.
 
Would you please review these traffic problems and let our community know about progress on these items? Thank you in advance for you help.


An additional traffic concern is the red light that has been placed on Muncaster Mill Road at Redland which no longer allows you to turn left on green unless you have a green arrow.  This greatly increases the time it takes to make it through the intersection.

If you have other concerns with traffic or other issues in the community please feel free to raise them at the meeting.    

Elections 
The elections of officers for the Alliance will take place at the end of the meeting.  Only those who are paid members of the Alliance will be allowed to vote.

No one has contacted the nominating committee  indicating a desire to serve as an Alliance officer for next year.  The current officers have all agreed to continue in their current positions.  Below is a list of those who have agreed to continue in their current positions.

President - Pat Labuda
1st Vice President -  Ken Weiss
2nd Vice President - Joseph Parello
Secretary -  Harrison Wein.
Treasurer -  open.

At the meeting nominations can be taken from the floor by any paid member.

This will be the last Alliance meeting until September.