To: MCPS Leadership; MCPS Board of Education; Montgomery County Executive & Montgomery County Council
Central MoCo Deserves Better—Now!
With appreciation of your collaborative effort, in the fall of 2025, to allocate $10M County funds to relocate the Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) Bus Depot located at 16651 Crabbs Branch Way—including as many buses as possible to MCPS high schools—to allow continuation and completion of the County-approved and long-planned smart growth of the Shady Grove Sector and central Montgomery County, we look forward this relocation being fully completed to help realize the County’s own plan for the Shady Grove Sector:
https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/DGS/OPD/MCPSShadyGroveBusDepotRelocation.html
https://www2.montgomerycountymd.gov/mcgportalapps/Press_Detail.aspx?Item_ID=34042&Dept=1
https://montgomeryplanning.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/SMA-Planning-Board-Presentation.pdf
https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/DGS/OPD/MCPSShadyGroveBusDepotRelocation.html
https://www2.montgomerycountymd.gov/mcgportalapps/Press_Detail.aspx?Item_ID=34042&Dept=1
https://montgomeryplanning.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/SMA-Planning-Board-Presentation.pdf
Why is this important?
The Shady Grove Sector is a fantastic place to live. Great location. Great schools. A wonderful community. But it could be so much more, and it deserves to be—Now!
This petition will remain open until the MCPS Bus Depot is fully relocated, as long expected and deserved by our community, per the County’s own plan for development. Until this relocation occurs, the bus depot is:
• adversely affecting the value of homes in Derwood
• discouraging businesses from investing in the Derwood community
• polluting our air with exhaust and excessive noise
• further exacerbating traffic in and around the Shady Grove Metro Station.
To our fellow residents here in central Montgomery County, and beyond, sign this petition to expect the complete relocation of the MCPS bus depot as soon as possible to help realize the County’s own smart growth plan for the Shady Grove Sector, because Central Montgomery County Deserves Better—Now!
This petition will remain open until the MCPS Bus Depot is fully relocated, as long expected and deserved by our community, per the County’s own plan for development. Until this relocation occurs, the bus depot is:
• adversely affecting the value of homes in Derwood
• discouraging businesses from investing in the Derwood community
• polluting our air with exhaust and excessive noise
• further exacerbating traffic in and around the Shady Grove Metro Station.
To our fellow residents here in central Montgomery County, and beyond, sign this petition to expect the complete relocation of the MCPS bus depot as soon as possible to help realize the County’s own smart growth plan for the Shady Grove Sector, because Central Montgomery County Deserves Better—Now!