Good evening, Rockville.

Today is Wednesday, May 14th, 2025.

This is meeting number 06 25 of the City of Rockwell Planning Commission.

I am Jamie Espinosa, Chair of the Planning Commission.

I am joined in chambers by Commissioner Shahhand Sauludin, Commissioner Eric Fulton, Commissioner Mungsoon, and Susan Pittman.

Commissioner Susan Pittman is joining virtually tonight.

Tonight's meetings obviously being conducted in person and virtually by WebEx.

Tonight's agenda includes a briefing on project plan amendment PJT 2025-00023.

Then this will be followed by a regularly scheduled commission items.

So moving to our first agenda item, it is that briefing on project plan amendment PJT 2025-00023 to amend the plan development for Rockville Center Incorporated to permit construction of a 12-story multifamily building containing 147 affordable housing units and a parking waiver to provide zero on-site parking spaces located at 41 Maryland Avenue in the PD RCI Plan Development Rockville Center Incorporated Zone.

SCG Development Holdings LLC Comstock 41 Maryland LLC Comstock 44 Maryland LLC applicants.

Mr.

Waselak, is there a staff briefing?

Yes, thank you, Mr.

Chair and members of the Commission.

This is a project plan application to amend an existing plan development within the town center.

And without further ado, I'm going to pass it over to Christopher Davis, our senior planner.

Thank you, Mr.

Rossleck.

Good evening, Mr.

Chair and members of the Commission.

Christopher Davis with Community Planning and Development Services Department.

As Mr.

Rossleck indicated, this is a project plan amendment, PJT 2025 00023 for 41 and 44 Maryland Avenue.

This represents the momentum at Rockville Station Project.

So just to recall for the Planning Commission, this is your briefing.

And it allows the opportunity for the Commission to provide preliminary feedback to the applicant and ask questions.

As you'll see, the project will come back to you at a later stage for recommendation.

So the project site is outlined in red on the screen.

It is 41 Maryland Avenue.

It is located in planning area one corresponding to the town center, and it's approximately 0.42 acres.

It has a land use designation of commercial and residential mix and a zoning classification of PDRCI corresponding with the plan development for Rockville Center Inc.

and an equivalent zone for the mixed use transit district.

As you can see, the property is currently developed with an on-sur a surface parking lot at the corner of East Middle Lane and Maryland Avenue.

As you can see, this area is further developed with properties surrounding mixed uses.

So the specific proposal by the applicant is to replace the existing surface parking lot with a 12-story multifamily building that would include 147 affordable housing units.

And to further uh implement that change, uh the proposal is to amend the plan development for certain use and site standards.

In addition, the applicant proposes to replace certain MPDU units uh classified for the confronting 44 Maryland Avenue property with MPDU units in the subject project.

So to outline the review process, uh the applicant has completed their pre-application requirements, including an area meeting on January 21st, 2025.

Uh, following the pre-application stage, the applicant has submitted their project plan amendment application and completed their post-application area meeting, which was completed on April 29th, 2025.

Uh further steps include uh the applicant DRC meeting, where staff will provide comments on the proposed project that is scheduled for May 29th, and the mayor and council will receive their briefing next Monday on May 19th.

So the next steps include the applicant finalizing review of the project plan amendment application taking into account comments received by the planning commission and mayor and council in addition to public comments at the area meetings, and we'll revise the application as needed.

The application will then come to you for your recommendation at a future planning commission date before proceeding to Mayor and Council for their consideration to include a public hearing and possible adoption.

Once action is complete on the project plan, the planning commission will then see the project again for consideration of a site plan application.

And with that, Mr.

Chair, that concludes staff's presentation.

The applicant has a presentation to follow.

Thank you.

Do any of my commissioners have any questions of staff at this time before we hear from the applicant?

Nope, hearing none.

Please come forward, ma'am.

And I think Mr.

Wassock has to put you under oath.

So good evening, Nancy Reglin from the law firm of Shulman Rogers here on behalf of SEG Development, which is one of the applicants that is the affordable housing developer, Comstock 41, which is the owner of the surface parking lot, and Compstock 44, which is the owner of Boulevard 44 confronting the property.

The presentation tonight is going to be presented by Kirk Salpini of SCG Development.

And then he and I will be happy to field your questions.

And we do have a lot of our project consultants in the audience today.

Should any questions we need to go to them for referral?

So at this time, I'd like to pass this over to Mr.

Salvini.