so many meetings on thursday

This bus is in Alexandria. Don't know if Metro runs flowery buses in East County.

It's a big day for meetings in East County, with a major development proposal, the redesign of a major Metrobus line, and the new Silver Spring Library all on the docket. Check it out:

- The day starts at 1pm as the Planning Board reviews a preliminary plan (warning! PDF file) to develop fifty-one townhomes and single-family homes on the forty-two-acre Anselmo property on Briggs Chaney Road in Cloverly. In their report to the board, Planning Department staff raise concerns about the design, which places the townhomes along Briggs Chaney - a street currently dominated by homes on one-acre lots - while siting the single-family homes in a separate cluster away from the road.

- Right around dinner time, Metro's kicks off its study of the Q2 Metrobus line, which runs between the Silver Spring and Shady Grove Metro stations via Veirs Mill Road, with a meeting also on Thursday night. Throughout the next several months, they'll be surveying riders and implementing their suggestions on how to make the route, one of the most heavily-traveled Metrobus lines in the system, more effective. This meeting will be held at the Holiday Park Senior Center on the corner of Veirs Mill and Ferrara Drive in Wheaton at 6:30pm.

- Finally, the County discusses the new Silver Spring Library and whether to build a bridge or an at-grade crossing between the new facility and the Wayne Avenue parking garage across the street. That meeting is at 7pm in the current Silver Spring Library on Colesville Road.