A photo caption in some editions of the April 9 Metro section misidentified John Carter as a Montgomery County commissioner. He is the division chief for community-based planning.
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Deal Won't Stop Probe Of Clarksburg Zoning
Eduardo Sardina, left, a designer, talks to John Carter, county commissioner, about the layout of Clarksburg. The county allowed homes in the area that violated zoning.
(By Marvin Joseph -- The Washington Post)
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"I need to see all the details of the plan, and I believe we will need to understand the additional cost," said board member Meredith Wellington, a frequent critic of her colleagues' decisions to collect fines without also compelling developers and builders to admit wrongdoing.
"We are in the public now," she told Howe.
Howe warned the planning board to pay careful attention to as-yet undisclosed financial agreements, or risk killing the deal.
"We hope the board understands if there are significant changes to the plan of compliance in a monetary way, it may be likely the plan will not go forward," she told the board Thursday night.
Council member Tom Perez (D-Silver Spring), who had pushed to remove the case from the planning board and give it to a mediator, said the board could still tweak it. "It was always clear that it was going to be a proposal that the board was free to accept, reject or modify . . . and it was not something they would pass on without public input," Perez said.
Some Clarksburg residents, who did not participate in the mediation but will be affected by the outcome because they live nearby, expressed concerns about secrecy.
"I hope that nothing like Clarksburg happens again," said Kathie Hulley, who chairs the planning committee for the 100-member Clarksburg Civic Association. "You can't undo the violations, but we can't find out what happened, because no one is allowed to speak out."
Staff writer Tim Craig contributed to this report.
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