Chevy Chase Lake Sector Plan
On January 25, the Planning Board transmitted the Chevy Chase Lake Sector Plan Planning Board Draft (4 MB fast-download version) to the County Executive and County Council. For a full resolution file, contact us.
- View the Chevy Chase Sector Plan appendix
- Download the draft Design Guidelines for the Chevy Chase Lake Sector Plan(5.8 MB). The design guidelines will be finalized by the Planning Board after the County Council has approved the sector plan.
Background
Take a walking tour of the Chevy Chase Lake planning area with lead planner Elza Hisel-McCoy in this excerpt from our Montgomery Plans cable show.
Recommendations for Chevy Chase Lake, a community of mixed housing types and commercial strip centers along Connecticut Avenue just north of Washington, D.C., are part of a community vision that revises the 1990 Bethesda-Chevy Chase Master Plan.
Chevy Chase Lake is one in a series of land use plans that set design and development patterns in Purple Line station areas. Planners focused on land use and zoning recommendations as redevelopment occurs around the proposed Purple Line station at Chevy Chase Lake Drive and Connecticut Avenue.
In 1890, Senator Francis G. Newlands established the Chevy Chase Land Company, which led development as Connecticut Avenue was extended north of the Washington, D.C., line. Chevy Chase Lake was formed when a small dam was constructed across Coquelin Run stream to supply water for an electric power plant.
The community grew around the lake about two miles north of the District line at the junction of a trolley line and the Baltimore and Ohio Georgetown Branch. The area included several businesses, an amusement park, and from 1925 to 1972, a swimming pool. For Chevy Chase residents, “the lake” enjoyed a particular community significance.
Project schedule
Upcoming
The County Council's Planning, Housing, and Economic Development (PHED) Committee's tentative schedule of worksessions on the sector plan:
- June 10, 2013
- June 17, 2013
- June 24, 2013
- Early July: County Council consideration
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The questionnaire also asked for more detailed thoughts about what potential redevelopment of Chevy Chase Lake should be. Staff read each survey and summarized the general themes that emerged, as well as what community features the Sector Plan ought to preserve, enhance, and create. See the Contact
Elza Hisel-McCoy
301-495-2115
Elza.Hisel-mccoy@montgomeryplanning.org
Date of last update: May 10, 2013
Montgomery County Planning Department