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Montgomery
County Fire and Rescue Service (MCFRS) workers have returned safely after
deployments to assist Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands and Florida following the
devastation from Hurricanes Irma and Maria.
The Montgomery County Department of Recreation’s Rock-n-Relief youth concert, held Sunday, September 17, at AMP by Strathmore, exceeded its fundraising goal, bringing in over $5,000 for hurricane victims in Florida and Texas.
The Montgomery County Economic Development Corporation (MCEDC) announced that Fox 5 TV, a unit of Fox Television Stations, plans to move from its current location in northwest Washington, D.C. to Bethesda. The television station will occupy a new 57,500 square foot, state-of-the-art studio, newsroom and office space. This will bring approximately 200 jobs into the County.
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Montgomery County is taking a major step forward to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and meet climate protection goals with the unanimous Council approval of Executive Regulation 21-15 AMII, which adopts the International Green Construction Code (IgCC) establishing green building code requirements.
The second annual Montgomery County Procurement Forum takes place on Thursday, October 5 from 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. at the Silver Spring Civic Building located at 1 Veterans Place.
Join Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett, Department of Housing & Community Affairs Director Clarence Snuggs, property and business owners and community representatives to celebrate the completion of several significant façade improvement projects in Burtonsville. The program will be held on Saturday, October 7 at 11 a.m. at the Burtonsville Village Center located at 15500 Block of Old Columbia Pike.
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County Executive Ike Leggett participated in a ribbon cutting ceremony for one of dozens of pedestrian safety improvement projects recently completed or planned in White Flint by the Montgomery County Department of Transportation (MCDOT) that support the area’s continuing transformation into a walkable, bikeable, transit-oriented community on Wednesday, September 27.
Montgomery County Executive
Ike Leggett is requesting public input on a draft Zoning Text Amendment (ZTA)
to revise the County’s zoning code to address deployment of small antennas on
streetlights and lower-height buildings. A community meeting for this
input will be held from 7-9 p.m. on Monday, October 23 at the Stella B Werner
Council Office Building located at 100 Maryland Avenue, 3rd Floor Hearing Room
in Rockville.
On
Sunday, October 8, hundreds of people from all faiths will walk together on New
Hampshire Avenue that is known as “the Highway to Heaven” because the three-mile
route has more diverse faith traditions than anywhere else in America.
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