Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1962-10-11
sI'nl Going
ahead f. :
SiegeL Says

5UUU-acre annexation bid,
up-county developer Bern
ard Siegel said this week his
plans are "the same as
they've always been" for
creating an 8000-acre model
community around his River
Road Country Club.
This annexation business has
only delayed, not stopped, my
plans" he commented, follow
ing the 101-74 Poolesville vote
against taking his land into
the town.
He said his immediate plans
involve a community of $4,000
persons compared with some
$4,000 which would have been
housed under the 3000-acre an
nexation proposal 'just as
soon as a means of access is
completed.
Siegal referred to final miss
ing link" River road connection
of about 5000 feet from Hughes
I'd. to Willard rd. which runs
through his property, a 120-ft.
wide thoroughfare which, he
stressed, is scheduled for COM
pletion late this fall.
ut would be proper, / think,
to assume this road will bring
people out into my territory
who might want to live there.
If they want twO-acre home
sites, l have some," he said,
adding, however, that most of
his land Is in half-acre coming
now.
:. Under plans originally ar
nounced for the model COM
munity on 5000 acres owned by
Siegel and others, over 1900
acres was to be reserved for
single-family dwellings. Remain
ing land was to be allotted as
follows:
Open spaces, recreation,
parks, $3.50 acres; hiPh-rise
apartments, 1879 acres: garden
type apartments, PAL acres;
employment centers, office
buildings and industrial, $50
acres; schools, 1874 acres;
churches, SO acres; circumfe-
entail and planned access roads,
266 acres and other uses, 100
acres.
If the Maryland. n rational
Capital Park and Planning
Commission and the County
Council attempt to "gO
through with any attempt
to quickly rezone this land
so IL can't be developed"
Siegel Threatened, I'm GER
tainIy not going to sit still
and twiddIe my thumbs"
His reference was to current
proposals for open-space coming
in his area, which reserve ii
from development between cor.
ridors of high-density land use,
possibly In the five.acre cate
CORY.
I'll attempt to prove a con
spiracy, an attempt to confiscate
peoples property" Seigel
warned.
Asked If he would submit his
blueprints for the model plan,
ned community for planning
commission approval Seigel
said:
81 don't think there's going
to be any Park and Planning
Commission, at least on the
same basis it's now operating"
He said that with his land
now zoned for half-acre resi-
Dental development "all I need
to do Is apply for permits to
build at the county building in
Rockville. If meet the county's
criteria, ! will build-and they
can't set me apart on the basis
that they're going to have a
general plan which says ] can't"
Even under strengthened sub.
division regulations to guaran-
tee pure water supplies to com
munities not served by Washing
ton Suburban Sanitary Commits
sion water or sewer lines, Seigel
feels his property will qualify
for development.
He said he has eight deep
wells located throughout his
land, capable of pumping $50
gallons of water a minute-or
enough to handle a city of the
size contemplated, about 5000,
for five years." on the basis of
Is gallons per capita per day.
Seigel has been operating a
sewage disposal lagoon on his
property for Is months, under
permits from both the Mary
land State and Montgomery
County Health Departments.