Representing the 1200 households North of East-West Highway, South of Jones

Bridge Road, East of Wisconsin Avenue and West of Columbia Country Club.

Neighborhood News Spring 2015 WWW.EBCA.ORG

Roadwork Project Resumes

The street rehabilitation project is continuing for the southern part of

the neighborhood (originally Phase II of the project between Chestnut

Street and East-West Highway) which should be complete this

summer. They will then move to Phase I (Glenbrook Village) which

should be complete by summer 2016. More information is available at

tinyurl.com/ebca-roads.

As the newly elected president of

the East Bethesda Citizens

Association, I look forward to

another fantastic year in our

wonderful neighborhood and at

EBCA-hosted events in particular.

Joining me on the EBCA Executive

Committee are Katya Marin (1st

VP), Brittany Barsky (2nd VP),

Jack Hayes (Treasurer), Melissa

Groman (Secretary), and Rebecca

Fayed (Past President). We are

also very fortunate to have the

tremendous support of the

following committee chairs: Monica

Hayes (Education), Pascale Kraus

(Membership), Jay Briar

(Newsletter), Andy O’Hare (Capital

Crescent Trail), Nancy Roman

(Welcome Committee) and Kevin

Kraus (Parks). We are truly well

served by the work of this great

team of people committed to our

neighborhood.

With your support, EBCA brings

many great things to East

Bethesda – events such as the

Labor Day Picnic, the Halloween

Parade, and the Annual Yard Sale.

We also help keep the

neighborhood tidy through

volunteer common space cleanup

President’s Update

By Lisa McCabe, President

Our EBCA community yard sale

will be held on Saturday, May 9th,

9 a.m. to 12 noon on the blacktop

at Lynnbrook Park, 8001 Lynbrook

Drive. Contact Brittany Barsky at

Brittany@wydlerbrothers.com to

reserve your space. Spaces are $10

for EBCA members and $20 for

non-members.

At the end of the sale, trucks for

donations to A Wider Circle &

Veterans Affairs will be available.

In addition to items you are selling,

these organizations are in need of

many supplies to serve the

community: beds, dressers, tables

and chairs, furniture, televisions,

kitchen items, air conditioning

units, blankets, sheets, towels,

baby items and clothing, small

kitchen appliances, non-perishable

food, and new personal care items.

We’re looking forward to seeing

everyone on May 9th!

Yard Sale:

May 9th days and provide a strong voice in

the wider community. However, we

count entirely on neighbor

volunteerism and paid membership

to make these things happen.

There are so many ways to get

involved; we encourage your

participation in whatever form to

help keep EBCA strong and our

neighborhood one of the most

desirable places to live in the DC

metro area.

To that, I note that our Social

Committee Chair is open! We’d

love to fill the Social Committee

spot with one person or a group of

people willing to organize and plan

our EBCA social events. As a

former Social Committee Chair, I

know first-hand that this is a great

way to meet your neighbors and

have some fun!

If you are connecting with

neighbors through the EBCA

Facebook page, please take a

minute to join the Association and

become a full supporter of your

neighborhood. Our membership

follows the calendar year, so if you

haven’t done so yet this year,

please renew or join. You can reach

me at president@ebca.org.

Park Cleanup:

April 25th

Come help your neighbors clean

up Lynnbrook Park on Saturday,

April 25th anytime from 8 a.m. to 2

p.m. Please bring gloves and

garden tools. See you there! This is

a great opportunity to celebrate

Earth Day and to do some good in

the community!

Neighborhood News Spring 2015

The March EBCA meeting was well attended and

included presentations by Clark Enterprises and

Brookfield Properties regarding Bethesda Metro Plaza

as well as a presentation by the Montgomery County

Planning Department regarding the Bethesda

Downtown Plan. All groups provided a description of

their plans and answered questions from the audience.

The Montgomery County Planning Department will

be hosting a second workshop for the Bethesda

Downtown Plan on Saturday, May 17th, from 9 a.m. to

1 p.m. at Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School (4301

East-West Hwy). Planners will present a framework

concept for the plan based on feedback from numerous

community meetings held since last fall, followed by a

break-out session where participants will work in

groups to examine the characteristics of the various

neighborhoods that make up the Downtown Bethesda

area. RSVP’s are encouraged but not required.

More information is available online at

www.bethesdadowntownplan.org.

Downtown Bethesda

Planning Update

A recommended design for the Bethesda-Chevy

Chase (B-CC) High School addition to increase

capacity from 1665 to 2400 students will be presented

to the Board of Education (BOE) for approval later this

spring. The BOE budget requests an August 2017

completion but funding pressures may push

completion until August 2018. The new B-CC Middle

School (MS) #2 is scheduled to open in August 2017.

The community involvement process to inform which

elementary schools will feed into B-CC MS #2 will

occur in spring 2016 with BOE hearings and action in

November 2016. The addition at Bethesda Elementary

will open in August 2015. Parents interested in

enrolling Kindergarten students next fall should

contact the school now for information and orientation

schedules.

Increases Made to

School Capacities By Monica Hayes, Education Chair

Neighborhood News Spring 2015

Many of you may have noticed

that some initial work has taken

place to beautify the land next to

the cut through on Maryland

Avenue, between South Chelsea

Lane and Chestnut Street. The

property was weeded and sodded,

and trees have been trimmed along

the re-routed path. Members of the

Beautification Committee are

developing a landscape plan to

plant trees, bushes, and flowers

along this space.

If you are interested in helping

this effort in any way – by taking

part in planting, transporting

plants and materials, developing

the landscape plan, fundraising, or

providing plant or dollar donations

to help improve the beauty of our

community, contact Holly Elwood

at holly_elwood@yahoo.com.

Trees Available from County A small neighborhood group has

worked with the county to sign up

neighbors interested in receiving a

tree/trees in the right-of-way in

front of their houses. The trees will

be planted once the resurfacing

work is completed. Over 100

households have already signed up

and this first list is already with

the County. We hope to see the

first trees this spring or fall. If you

have already signed up, you do

NOT need to sign up again. You

will be contacted by the County

arborist. The arborist will discuss

the choice of tree, appropriateness

of the space, etc, etc.

However, if you have not yet

signed up, but are interested, there

is still time to do so. The trees are

free and must be planted in the

county right-of-way although there

may be some flexibility if the green

strip is too narrow. The homeowner

must commit to watering the tree

as needed until it is established.

Please email Maj-Britt Dohlie

at Mdohlie@gmail.com if you want

to sign up. Make sure to provide

your address and telephone

number.

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