July 2008 Archives

There's some shady business planned at the community college. If the proposed expansion goes the way some fear, they say the new buildings will be so big and tall they will cast the student common area, the local streets, and the surrounding neighborhood into perpetual shade.

This is not what the neighbors nor the Takoma Park city council want to happen, of course. They would like the Montgomery College Takoma Park branch to expand in another direction. The original college campus occupies a few city blocks in a residential neighborhood. The newer part of the campus with recently built or under-construction larger buildings occupies an adjacent area across the railroad tracks in commercial Silver Spring.