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3 May 2017

Greenbelt Station Transportation Woes, Budget and Beer at Council

by Diane Oberg

At its April 24 meeting, the City Council discussed the sudden discontinuation of the Greenbelt Station shuttle to the Metro station, adopted two changes to the city’s building code, held the first public hearing on the budget and introduced an … Read More

3 May 2017

New Cell Phone Tower Dominates Heated Discussion by City Council

by Diane Oberg

Judging by crowd size, the topic of greatest interest to residents at the April 24 City Council meeting was clearly the proposed construction of a T-Mobile cell phone antenna tower on the grounds of Eleanor Roosevelt High School (ERHS). Council … Read More

14 Apr 2017

City Council Begins Markup Of Proposed 2018 Budget

by Diane Oberg

City Manager Nicole Ard’s first proposed budget is set in a somewhat improving fiscal environment but with more uncertainties than usual: will federal grants be cut given the Trump administration’s desire to severely trim domestic agencies’ budgets? Will the General … Read More

5 Apr 2017

State Compliance Board Finds Errors In City’s Handling of Open Meetings

by Diane Oberg

Judging by crowd size, the two hot topics of the March 27 meeting of the Greenbelt City Council were the swearing in of four new police officers and the opinion from the Maryland Open Meetings Compliance Board regarding the complaint … Read More

5 Apr 2017

Council Receives Food Truck Hub Request; Plus Many Petitions

by Diane Oberg

Could a food truck hub be coming to Greenbelt? At its March 27 regular meeting, the Greenbelt City Council agreed to support a proposed hub in Capital Office Park. Council also received another bushel basket full of petitions from citizens … Read More

22 Feb 2017

City Residents Ask Away!

by Diane Oberg

Petitions were the order of the day at the February 13 council meeting, with eight petitions received. As is their usual practice, council took no action on these petitions but will consider them at future meetings, if council action is … Read More

22 Feb 2017

Council Discusses Crime, Police Staffing, Legislation

by Diane Oberg

The recent attempted and actual break-ins at Roosevelt Center along with concerns about other crime issues and police understaffing were discussed at the February 13 meeting of the City Council. In addition, two resolutions were introduced and council took positions … Read More

15 Feb 2017

Council Votes to Oppose Lakeside North Proposal

by Diane Oberg

Once the item reached their agenda on February 13, the Greenbelt City Council needed no convincing to agree to oppose the Southern Management Company’s concept plan for a 25-story high rise apartment on the Lakeside North tract as presented at … Read More

26 Jan 2017

Council Hears Lakeside North Petition, Other Citizen Requests

by Diane Oberg

The key item of interest at the January 23 meeting of the Greenbelt City Council was the presentation of a petition related to a proposed apartment building adjacent to Lakeside North Apartments. Once this item was completed, most of the … Read More

3 Nov 2016

Council Requests Changes To County Draft Zoning Law

by Diane Oberg

At its October 24 regular meeting the Greenbelt City Council approved the city’s comments on the final module of the county zoning rewrite and on the state consolidated transportation program. In addition, it received several citizen petitions including ones on … Read More