POTOMAC

Glen

Meet & Green with Esther Wells

View the discussion with Esther Wells that occurred at the PGCA clubhouse on September 23rd.

MCPS Bus Depot Committee

Your voice matters - get involved! PGCA needs volunteers to help collect and disseminate information regarding the proposed bus depot and its impact on Potomac Glen. Volunteers are also needed to participate in meetings and support the Board and PGCA's lobbyist to advocate against the bus depot. Click here for more information and get involved to help your neighborhood!

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Holiday Trash & Recycling

See below for the trash and recycling collection schedule for Veterans Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years Day. Veterans Day – Wednesday, November 11th Trash

Halloween Dance Party

Join us on October 25th from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the clubhouse. Click below for more details.

Rent the Clubhouse!

Rent the Glen Club for your next party. The large social hall, well appointed kitchen and ample parking make it ideal for your holiday parties.

Board Meeting

The next meeting of the Potomac Glen Community Association Board of Directors will be held on Monday, September 28, 2026, at 7 pm via Zoom

Community Action Needed: MCPS Bus Depot Proposal

The MCPS Board of Education will revisit the proposed bus depot issue in November and has the ability to remove the proposed bus depot in our neighborhood from the MCPS Capital Budget.

We respectfully ask community members to take the following three actions:

Sign Up to Testify at the Board of Education Public Hearings

The proposed Capital Budget, which includes the bus depot issue, will be discussed during two public hearings:

October 26 at 5:00 PM (in person)
Board of Education
15 W. Gude Drive, Rockville, MD
October 27 at 5:00 PM (virtual hearing)

Each speaker will be allotted two minutes to testify.

To sign up to testify, beginning October 15 at 6:00 PM, please use the following link:

https://forms.gle/KiKec3qGF41bEvyW9

**Please note the link will not work until 6:00 pm on October 15.**

Attend the Hearing and Show Your Support

Even if you do not plan to testify, we need community members to attend the hearings and hold small signs expressing opposition to the proposed bus depot.

If you are able to attend, please let us know by replying via email

Send an Email to the Superintendent and Board of Education

Please send an email by October 20 to:

A sample letter is provided below.

Sample Letter

Dear Members of the Board of Education,

I am writing as a member of the community adjacent to the parcel of land owned by MCPS that is proposed to be used as a new bus depot. The parcel is located at the intersection of Piney Meetinghouse Road, Shady Grove Road, and Cavanaugh Drive (known as Wootton ES Site #7 in the MCPS Real Estate Property Report). I am strongly opposed to the use of this land for a bus depot.

This MCPS bus depot proposal, and the process leading up to it, are highly problematic for the following reasons:

The bus depot proposal arbitrarily changes the long-established and communicated land use for this small parcel, inserting a highly incompatible industrial use within a residentially zoned area.
The proposed bus depot ignores sensitive environmental designations associated with this land parcel. The property is located within the Piney Branch Special Protection Area, established to protect the fragile Watts Branch watershed, and is situated within a designated Maryland High Priority Urban Forest.
The proposed site is directly contrary to the Potomac Subregion Master Plan, which indicates that unused school sites should be utilized for recreational or environmental conservation purposes.
The proposal to use Wootton ES Site #7 as a new bus depot was developed without transparency, community notice, or meaningful opportunities for input from impacted residents and stakeholders.

This is ultimately an issue of trust. As you are well aware, we live in a time when public trust in government is more important than ever. Residents must be able to trust that their government acts transparently, follows due process, and honors its commitments to the community.

A government that disregards its own environmental protection designations, zoning expectations, and master plan land-use guidance, while acting without transparency or meaningful public engagement, is not a government that inspires trust. That is not who we are in Montgomery County, and it is not who we should become. We are better than that.

Because planning for the bus depot does not begin for another three years under MCPS’s proposed timeline, there is no need to retain this line item in the budget at this time. It is neither necessary nor an act of good faith to advance this proposal now without essential input from impacted residents and governmental and non-governmental stakeholders.

Please vote against the proposed MCPS bus depot project and remove it from the Capital Budget.

Thank you for your time and consideration.