The applicant has had nearly a year to answer the county's corrections. The plans on file are the same ones from January. Watch for the gaps: the longest stretches of this timeline are the quietest.
A Rental Housing Works application is received by Maryland DHCD, with CDC Capital LLC as sponsor, seeking $3.5 million in gap financing for the 107-unit project. The award would later be listed as "projected," with the standard disclaimer that it is not a commitment of funds.
Gorove Slade's 54-page traffic study is completed, based on counts taken September 26, 2024. It would not be filed to the county's development review pages until December 31, 2025.
Miner Feinstein Architects' v1 drawings go on record: a four-story, 55-foot apartment bar with surface parking facing Ridge Road. These remain the latest architectural plans on file.
Preliminary Plan 120260020, Site Plan 820260020, and Forest Conservation Plan F20250430 are accepted by Montgomery Planning. The hearing deadline is set for May 7, 2026.
County agencies file their review comments. Fire and Rescue lists 8 items: hydrant spacing, apparatus access, walkable grade, fire lane orders. Transportation says the traffic analysis is incomplete and a $2,000 review fee is owed. Three reviewers say the proposed open space does not meet the code. The stormwater management concept, denied in May 2025, still needs rework.
The DRC meets on the project with its long corrections list: incomplete traffic study, unpaid fees, parking dimension problems, open space that does not comply with the code, fire access, stormwater, architecture. The applicant now knows everything the county wants fixed.
The Planning Board approves the first review extension, pushing the deadline to October 1, 2026. The stormwater management concept, denied a year earlier, is issued on this same date.
Five months pass after the first extension. The county's corrections sit unanswered. No revised drawings, no updated traffic study, no fee receipt appears in the public record. The latest plan sheets on file still date to January.
The applicant files a second extension request, to January 28, 2027. In the box asking why more time is needed, the applicant writes that it needs time "to develop design changes that are intended to achieve better master plan compliance and compatibility, as well as to provide the required open space on site." In its own signed words: the design does not yet comply with the master plan and does not yet provide the required open space.
The Planning Board grants the second extension. The review deadline moves to January 28, 2027. No revised plans have been filed.
The applicant has until January 28, 2027 to file plans that comply with the master plan and provide the required open space. Between now and then, it has to do what nine months have not yet produced: a plan that works as filed.