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State Roundup: Dem leaders push $520M in relief targeting small biz, vulnerable Marylanders
The State Senate Jan. 22, 2021. MarylandReporter.com photo
DEMS PROPOSE $520M TARGETED RELIEF PACKAGE: Senate Democratic leaders Wednesday unveiled a $520 million coronavirus fiscal relief package aimed at helping both the state’s small businesses and its most vulnerable communities survive the pandemic, Bryan Renbaum of Maryland Reporter writes.
The Senate’s “Recovery Now” plan runs a wide gamut of priorities: sending millions to food banks and fire departments; wiping out utility and rental debt for a few thousand families; awarding grants for businesses, artists and nonprofits; paying $1,000 to tens of thousands of people stuck in limbo in the unemployment system; restoring buses and trains to pre-pandemic service levels; and funding “wellmobiles” to administer doses of the coronavirus vaccine, Pamela Wood of the Sun reports.
Jan 14, 2021
FONDA The Montgomery County Planning Board’s regular meeting is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. today via Zoom meeting teleconference, according to a news release.
To join the meeting from a computer, tablet or smartphone:
Zoom meeting ID: 899 574 5359 Password: 081958.
To call by phone: Dial: 646-558-8656 enter meeting information: 8995745359#, 1#, 08195#
For more information, call the office at (518) 853-8334.
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155 beds planned in six-story building
December 18, 2020 | 6:30 pm
December 19, 2020
Rendering via Montgomery County Planning
The Montgomery County Planning Board has approved the construction of an assisted living facility in Bethesda’s Westbard neighborhood.
The 155-bed facility would be one phase of a larger project that also calls for redeveloping the Westwood Shopping Center.
Previously, developer Kensington Senior Development LLC proposed and the Planning Board approved in 2019 410 apartments and 104 townhomes that would have included about 138,000 square feet of development.
Now, the developer has changed plans to include cutting 144 of the previously approved apartments and instead including a six-story assisted living facility.
The rental cost in the assisted living facility could start at around $5,000 a month, covering a room, meals and housekeeping, a project representative said during a meeting about the project in April.
70 units proposed on Chevy Chase Drive
December 18, 2020 | 12:08 am
December 18, 2020
Picture via Montgomery County Planning Board
The Montgomery County Planning Board gave unanimous approval to early plans for a development in Bethesda that would produce 70 new condominiums.
Winthrop Investment Group has proposed demolishing a single-family home used as an office and replacing it with a 70-foot-tall building at 4702 Chevy Chase Drive.
The building will include a fitness center, a “wellness area” and a rooftop deck, according to the development application.
A below-ground parking garage with 63 spaces for vehicles and 35 spaces for bikes are included in the project’s plan.
Attorney Pat Harris, with Lerch Early & Brewer and representing the developer, said that the building will look “different” than others in the neighborhood because it will be more modern. But, she said, “the way Bethesda is going” the neighborhood will be more modernized in the coming year