City Council Looks at Service Groups and Museum Funding
The April 4 city council worksession focused on support that the city gives to various organizations providing services to Greenbelters as well as the budget for the Greenbelt Museum. There are two main classes of organizations receiving assistance: regional services such as Meals on Wheels or Washington Ear, and city contribution and recognition groups such […]
Council Approves Audiovisual Upgrade Proposals Amendment
At its January 22 regular meeting, the Greenbelt City Council approved two proposals to improve the broadcasting/streaming of meetings in the council chambers, introduced an amendment to the city charter to correct an error in the original annexation of Greenbelt Station, and approved letters to the city’s and neighboring state delegations urging opposition to the […]
Zoning Rewrite, Voting Age Top City Council’s Agenda
At the Greenbelt City Council’s last regular meeting of 2017 on December 11, council dealt with two longstanding issues: expressing its concerns with the draft zoning ordinance and reducing the minimum voting age to 16. Zoning Rewrite Council approved, with some editing, a letter drafted for council’s signature by Terri Hruby, acting director of planning […]
Franklin Park’s Worksession Shows a Work in Progress
As part of its periodic stakeholders’ meetings the Greenbelt City Council met with Franklin Park management on November 29 to receive an update on what’s happening within that community. Topics discussed included crime, communications with residents, recycling conditions in the apartment complex and more. On most of these topics, council offered advice on city services […]
Councilmembers Set Goals And Bid Farewell to Herling
After weeks of campaigning by 13 candidates, it was all over but the speeches. The councilmembers had been sworn in, the six incumbents had welcomed newly-elected Councilmember Colin Byrd to their ranks, the mayor (Emmett Jordan) and mayor pro tem (Judith Davis) had been elected and the standing room only crowd had been led in […]
Council Asks for Draft County Zoning Regulation Release
The Greenbelt City Council marched fairly quickly through a varied agenda at its October 9 regular meeting, clearing a variety of issues from its plate including responding to Aileen Kroll’s petition regarding how to protect old Greenbelt under the proposed new zoning law, finalizing a letter presenting the city’s proposals regarding changes to Metrobus routes […]
GHI Candidates Forum Offers Conflicting Views on Issues
On Tuesday, October 3 Greenbelt Homes Inc. (GHI) hosted the first candidates’ event of this election season. To accommodate the bumper crop of contenders, the event lasted three hours instead of the usual two. Response times were shortened to two minutes for the opening question and one minute for all other responses, causing frustration among […]
City Requests Overlay Zone Be Included in Zoning Law
Whether the county rezoning process would leave old Greenbelt unprotected from higher density development was the key issue before the Greenbelt City Council at its September 11 regular meeting. Aileen Kroll presented council with a petition with roughly 2,000 signatures requesting them to go on record that night, in the presence of County Councilmember Todd […]
Council Adds Voting Age, Maybe Dam Loan to Ballot
Voters will likely see two referendum questions on the ballot when they go to the polls on Tuesday, November 7. The first question, whether to lower the voting age to 16, was unanimously approved for referendum by the city council at its September 11 meeting. A second question is whether the city should borrow up […]
Forest Preserve Assessment Recommends City Actions
As the July 31 city council worksession drew to a close, Mayor Emmett Jordan reminded everyone that “this is just a start.” The meeting was called to discuss the Forest Preserve Assessment conducted by A. Morton Thomas and Associates, Inc. (AMT) with Gregory Osband, the company’s director of landscape architecture and ecosystem services, Erin Josephitis, […]