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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I follow the planning board Facebook page for Montgomery County and today (thanks for the warning!) they posted that there is going to be a public comment period on THURSDAY MARCH 21st to talk about housing and missing middle zoning issues.  They are discussing upzoning in MOCO.

You can’t complain about the new duplex or 4-6 unit apartment building next door to your house when it happens if you don’t let them know how you feel.

You can submit a written testimony through email to let them know your thoughts and feelings.

“item March 21 – Public Comment Item – Attainable Housing Strategies Public Listening Session. If submitting written testimony, include this same information (the date and title of the item) in your email.”

Contact the Planning Board

Email: MCP-Chair@mncppc-mc.org

M-NCPPC Montgomery County Commissioners Office at (301) 495-4605

https://montgomeryplanning.org/planning/housing/attainable-housing-strategies-initiative/

https://montgomeryplanningboard.org/agenda-item/march-21-2024/[/quote]

So...with testimony of any sort (in person, by zoom or by recording) and even just attendance limited to those registering by noon the day before, it looks like they have given less than 24 hours notice.  That's got to violate an open meetings law, somehow.[/quote]

Then you can file a complaint.

9. What’s “reasonable advance notice?”

That depends on the circumstances. Ordinarily, a public body should use notice methods
that are likely to reach its constituency, including the members of the press who regularly
report on the public body or the activities of the government of which the public body is a
part. The Act gives examples of reasonable methods, including the use of a website that
the public body ordinarily uses to provide information to the public.

As for the timing of the notice, a public body that has scheduled a meeting should not delay
posting notice, unless the meeting was scheduled so far in advance that it would be more
effective to post notice closer to the meeting date. The Act does not set a deadline for
posting notice and thus does not prevent public bodies from meeting on short notice in
emergencies. In emergencies, the public body must provide the best notice feasible under
the circumstances.

The Act does set minimum requirements for what a notice must contain: the time, date, and
place of the meeting, and, if the public body expects to close part of the meeting to the
public, an alert to that fact. In order to plan the meeting space, a public body may include
in its notice a request that members of the public contact the public body if they wish to
attend. For details on notice requirements, see Chapter 2 of the Open Meetings Act Manual.

Public bodies must make an agenda available before each meeting, either when notice is
posted, if the items of business are known then, or as soon as practicable, but no later than
24 hours before the meeting. There is an exception for meetings held in response to
emergencies.[/quote]

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