Rockville Planning Commission Meeting 07-25 – May 28, 2025

Good evening, Rockville.

Today is Wednesday, May 28th, 2025.

This is meeting number 07-25 of the City of Rockville Planning Commission.

I am Jamie Espinosa, Chair of the Planning Commission.

I am joined in chambers by Commissioner Susan Pittman, Commissioner Eric Fulton, and Commissioner Monkson.

And we are joined virtually by Commissioner Cheyenne Salahuddin.

Tonight's meeting is being conducted in person and virtually by WebEx.

Tonight's agenda includes one review and action item, final record application PLT 2025-00640, one recommendation to Mayor and Council, Zoning Text Amendment TXT 2025-00270, one discussion item, uh work session number two on the zoning ordinance rewrite.

And then this will be followed by a regularly scheduled commission items.

Our agenda, our first agenda item is final record plat application PLT 2025-00640.

Therese subdivide a part of Parcel C, Block D, Tower Oaks located in the PD-TO Plan Development Tower Oaks Zone at 2000 Tower Oaks Boulevard Learner Applicant.

Over to Mr.

Wasilak for any staff presentation.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair and members of the commission.

This is a final record plan application that is furthering the implementation of the project known as the reserve at Tower Oaks.

And we have uh principal planner Nelson Ortiz to make the staff presentation after I swear him in.

Mr.

Ortiz, could you identify yourself for the record?

Nelson Ortiz, uh Principal Planner with uh community planning and development services department.

And will you provide truthful testimony this evening?

I will.

Please proceed.

This is uh final record plat application PLT 2025 00640.

This plant is for the property located at 2000 Tower Oaks Boulevard, seen here in red.

The subject property is located at the southeast corner of Wooden Parkway and Tower Oaks Boulevard.

The property's land use designation is office commercial residential mix.

Property is zoned plan development, Tower Oaks and has an equivalent zone of mixed use employment.

It is 2.57 acres in size, and it is currently developed with a nine-story office building with a restaurant in the ground level of the building.

Here is the proposed plant.

The applicant uh proposes to resubdivide a 2.57 acre portion of parcel C, block D, to create a new record law.

Your original parcel C, block D of Tower Oaks subdivision was 2.72 acres.

The difference in area highlighted in yellow was recently dedicated as public right-of-way and serves to accommodate the sidewalk and landscape buffer for Towler Street.

The subject property, 2000 Tower Oaks Boulevard was included in project plan application PJT 2023 00015 for tower preserve in order to seek a parking reduction.

The sidewalk and landscape buffer were contemplated as part of the Towler Street route of way dedication.

The existing improvements on the subject property will remain with no further improvements and no further improvements are proposed at this time.

And discussing with staff and the applicant, um, staff is recommending uh some uh changes um or a deletion to uh condition number three related to forestry uh since uh the uh since the property isn't subject to a forest conservation easement.

Uh we're gonna uh we're not gonna require the applicant to add a note.

So we are recommending to the planning commission that they uh delete uh condition number three in the staff report.

And then we uh would recommend that you uh uh proceed and maintain uh the remaining conditions in the staff report, but we do want to provide some notes related to conditions four through six and uh condition seven uh with regards to uh conditions four through six.

We just want to note that these are standard uh department of public works plat conditions and they serve uh for informational and tracking purposes.

These conditions uh should not hold up the project if uh they've already been fulfilled.

But again, we are recommending that you keep these.

Um as far as condition number seven, um that is requesting uh the recordation of uh an agreement.

Uh that agreement has since been uh recorded and the applicant has provided a copy to staff of that recorded easement.

So that condition condition number seven has been fulfilled.

So with that, that uh does conclude my presentation and we are recommending approval uh with conditions, and I've also included a recommended motion here for uh you two entertain.

That concludes my presentation.

If you have any questions, thank you.

Do any of the commissioners here in the chamber with me have any questions of Mr.

Ortiz?

Commissioner Pittman.

Mr.

Ortiz, could you elaborate on why this is not subject to a forest conservation easement?

Did I or did I hear that wrong?

Is it or is it not?

No, so this property is not subject to a conservation, a forest conservation easement.

It is part of a forest conservation plan, but not subject to an actual easement.

Is there a reason for that?

What's what is the reason for that?