Visions for the Olney Town Center -
         make your voice heard......

The Olney Town Center has long been more than just the intersection of two State highways. But, with the approval of the 2005 Olney Master Plan, the community and the County's planners focused their attention on the future of our town center and how to further the goal of this and past master plans to make it a focal point for the greater Olney community.

A zone was created to further that goal and a committee comprised of members from all facets of the community was created to help shape future town center development.

The Olney Town Center Advisory Committee (OTCAC), comprised of members affiliated with civic organizations, homeowners associations, County government or social service agencies or organizations, business groups and property owners in Olney, is chartered by the Maryland National Capital Park and Planning Commission to create a common community-based vision of what the future town center could look like and how it might function in relation to the surrounding neighborhoods.

To do that the OTCAC is charged with:

• Creating an Illustrative Concept
• Creating a concept for a civic center/town commons, and
• Reviewing development proposals for parcels within the town center before they are presented to the Montgomery County Planning Board

And,

• Facilitating communication among land owners within Olney town center
• Developing recommendations for capital improvement projects
• Providing input to the redevelopment process in adjacent neighborhoods

The OTCAC wants to hear from you, so check this website often for information about our meetings; reaching the Committee members; downloading a feedback form;seeing background information about plans, design elements, proposals, and more that the Committee is looking at, future public meetings, the draft Illustrative Concept & Development Guidelines, and other proposed recommendations the Committee is preparing.

What's New....

• (NEW) The OTCAC Is Seeking Community Input on Proposed Design Guidelines.

  The next OTCAC Community Outreach Meeting will take place on
  Tuesday, January 31, 2012
  in the Olney Community Room
  Buffington RE/MAX Building
  3300 Olney-Sandy Spring Road
  Olney, MD 20832

  The presentation will focus on proposed Design Guidelines for future development in the Olney Town Center that emphasize mixed-use development.
  
  Everyone is encouraged to attend - residents, business owners and operators, non-profit and residential organizations...anyone interested in how the Town Center grows....

• (NEW) 2012 Meeting Schedule
  
  The OTCAC continues to meet on the fourth Tuesday on the odd-numbered months in the Olney Community Room of the Buffington RE/MAX Realty Center.
  
  This year the meeting dates are:
  
  

  January 24	March 27	May 22
  July 24	September 25	November 27

  
  
  
• As of September 2011, the OTCAC has welcomed 2 new members. They are filling the two remaining current vacancies on the Committee.
  
  
  Incoming Members:
  
  
  • Danny Benn - Danny was nominated as a member of a homeowners association.
  • Lydia Rappolt - Lydia was also nominated as a member of a homeowners association.
  
  
  
• As of August 2011, the OTCAC is soliciting comments on draft Design Guidelines for the town center, beginning with being an exhibitor at National Night Out on Aug. 2, 2011.
  
  
• As of July 2011, Audrey Partington will replace Jim Haddow as Secretary of the OTCAC.
  
  Bob Beard continues to serve as the OTCAC Chair, and Helene Rosenheim continues as Vice Chair.
  
  
• As of July 2011, the OTCAC has welcomed 2 new member. There are still two vacancies on the Committee that we hope to fill shortly with others also nominated as members of homeowners or civic associations. Nominations forms are still being accepted.
  
  
  Incoming Members:
  
  
  • Howard Greif - Howard was nominated as a member of a homeowners association.
  • Audrey Fischer - Audrey was nominated as a member of the Olney Library Advisory Committee.
  
  
  
  Outgoing Members
  
  
  • Nancy DeLalio
  • Jim Haddow
  • Dorothy Kane
  • Walter Lee

  Nancy, Jim, and Walter had originally been nominated as members of homeowners associations. Dorothy had originally been nominated as a member of PROJECT CHANGE.

  Note: Helene Rosenheim who was originally nominated to the Committee as a staff member of the Mid-County Regional Center, continues to serve on the Committee, based on her renomination as a member of PROJECT CHANGE.