Development Blogger Supports Study of Northern Access to Cafritz

said as early as this summer in a letter to the community, that they would avoid a northern vehicular access point to the proposed Whole Foods Market project to avoid cut-through traffic in Calvert Hills.

Councilwoman , whose District 3 includes Calvert Hills, has said at meetings it’s important to her that a northern vehicular access point does not happen.

But the county’s planning staff says this additional connector at Rhode Island Avenue needs to be re-examined, and a writer for a College Park development-themed blog agrees.

Currently, the plan includes connectors on U.S. Route 1, and developers say they’re examining additional passageways on the and on the south.

Chris Gill wrote on Rethink College Park that these connectors would help to alleviate the traffic impact on U.S. Route 1 from Cafritz. And, although the Calvert Hills resident isn’t sure he supports a passageway to the north, he does support looking into the matter. He suggests that those in the neighborhood who already oppose the connector, without the study, are acting on emotion and faith.

“I do not know what all the potential impacts would be but I believe it is worth studying because more informed choices tend to be better [choices.],” he wrote.

Read more of the blog post here, then tell us what you think about the northern access point into Cafritz. Take the Patch Poll.

The Cafritz developers are scheduled to go before the County Planning Board on Thursday, Dec. 15 in Upper Marlboro, where the county planning staff report will be presented. .