Chevy Chase Lake
Planners are laying the groundwork for a Chevy Chase Lake Sector Plan that will focus on improving the form and function of some of the commercial areas, among other goals, to coincide with the coming of the Purple Line light rail line.
View the Scope of Work (1 MB) for the Chevy Chase Lake Sector Plan. The Planning Board approved the scope on July 1.
Recommendations for Chevy Chase Lake, a community of mixed housing types and commercial strip centers along Connecticut Avenue just north of Washington, D.C., will become part of a community vision that revises that part of 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 will focus on land use and zoning recommendations as redevelopment occurs around the proposed Purple Line station at Chevy Chase Lake Drive and Connecticut Avenue.
Background
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
- Summer 2010: Planners conduct research
- Fall/Winter 2010: Develop plan recommendations
Past meetings
- July 1, 2010: Planning Board approves Scope of Work
- April 27, 2010: Community open house, Chevy Chase Library
Contact
Date of last update: August 9, 2010
Montgomery County Planning Department