Today's Board Vote has Implications for Germantown Parks

The long-awaited Germantown Town Center Urban Park is part of the Capitol Improvements Program package on its way to the Montgomery County Planning Board for a vote today.

At a cost of roughly $7.2 million, the proposed park would occupy the 8.8-acres of land behind Germantown Library — the slopping, patch enveloped by the library’s parking lot, and Pinnacle and Locbury drives.  Park features would include interpretive trails, boardwalks and overlook terraces.

The planning board approved the park’s facility plan in 2005. The Maryland-National Capitol Park and Planning Commission began accepting bids for the parks construction Aug. 29.

Planners now estimate construction would begin in winter 2012.

Other Germantown projects included the CIP:

• $8.6 million to develop , a local park proposed in northern Germantown
• Trail upgrades at Black Hill Regional Park in Boyds, part of $1.5 million set aside for park trail improvements
• Roughly $21 million for improvements at South Germantown Recreational Park