Design workshop maps the future of Route 15 corridor
About 50 residents, planners, and developers meet at Camp Greentop to shape Frederick County Route 15. Sponsored by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the sessions target four issues including corridor vision, Thurmont interchange aesthetics, a proposed Lewistown grade separation, and new growth boundaries for Point of Rocks. Participants aim to draft a 20 year plan balancing development with historic character while county and state officials consider policy updates.
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Thurmont
U.S. 15
Frederick County
National Trust For Historic Preservation
Camp Greentop
Catoctin Mountain Park
Lisa Burcham
National Trust
Thurmont Boulevard
US 15
The
Historic Trust
Lewistown
Angleberger Road
Fish Hatchery Road
Trust
Par Iipants
Lewis
Point of Rocks
Commissioners
David Gray
National Historic Trust
Virginia
Pennsylvania
Hallowed Ground
Burcham
County Planning Commission
C. Scott Gove
Gove
James Shaw
Mr Shaw
Workmen Lay Patio at William Talley Center Site
Men from Martin P. Hill Landscaping in Manchester, Joe Lankford and Chuck Cole, lay brick and masonry on a patio beside the William Talley Recreation Center. Jim McKinney cuts bricks to fit as the crew progresses on a Friday morning project at the playground area.
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Joe Lankford
Chuck Cole
Martin P. Hill Landscaping
Manchester
William Talley Recreation Center
Jim McKinney
Frederick region planning meeting probes land use and growth
Less than a dozen people attended the Frederick County Planning Commission meeting to discuss updating the 1992 plan begun in 1998. Residents raised concerns while landowners seek designation changes by April. The region, the county’s fastest growing area, is 69 percent woodland, 16 percent residential, 2.6 percent commercial, with 27 major subdivisions and 12,978 approved units, 8,753 unbuilt. Discussion covered zoning, housing, traffic along Oppositmtown Pike, and compensation for land preserved, with staff planning a recommended plan for summer.
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See County Planning Commission
Frederick
Doug Ogden
Dave Price
Howard Payne
H.F Construction Co
Five year old dies from meningitis in Hagerstown
Autopsy confirms contagious meningococcal meningitis caused the death of Travis Jenkins five days before his sixth birthday. Washington County Health Officer Robert Parker said the state medical examiner found the bacteria. a day-care setting attended by five children prompted antibiotics for close contacts. CDC notes illness risk and case fatality rates.
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Hagerstown
Washington County
Robert Parker
Travis Jenkins
Showalter Jenkins
Travis
Mary
Parker
Federal
Centers For Disease Control and Prevention
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