The Gazette helpfully provides information about the proposed development at the site of the Arlington Road Post Office in Bethesda:
County planners may approve renovations to the post office on Arlington Road in Bethesda that could lead to a larger facility with 111 condominiums above it.The Keating Development Company, based in Philadelphia, submitted site plans and traffic studies for the proposed five-story building to the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission on Nov. 15.
If the plans are approved, the existing 16,000-square-foot building, at 7001 Arlington Road, would be torn down and replaced with a new office, an underground parking lot for residents and postal workers, and four stories of apartments.
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The United States Postal Service land in Bethesda is currently zoned for commercial businesses, and county planners would need to change the designation to a mixed-residential use.
A hearing on the rezoning has been scheduled for April 15, according to Dawn Minor, planning office administrator. Planners expected a change in the building’s use since a 1994 growth plan called the Bethesda Sector Plan.
