Welcome to the website of the Aspen Hill Civic Association (AHCA). Aspen Hill is a an unincorporated area in central Montgomery County, Maryland. Apparently its name came from the aspen trees that once were found near the first post office in the area. That post office was located in a general store on what was then known as the Washington-Brookeville Pike (now known as Georgia Avenue) near the intersection of Connecticut Avenue. That was about 1864. It is interesting to note that the current Aspen Hill Post Office is located very close to that area.

The Aspen Hill Civic Association, Inc. (AHCA) as an organization is not quite that old. It was formed about 1980. According to our constitution, the boundaries of the Association includes the region bounded by Georgia Avenue on the east, Bel Pre Road on the north (includes all properties on both sides of Bel Pre Road), to Norbeck Road, to Rock Creek and then to Veirs Mill Road on the west, and to the southern boundary of Matthew Henson State Park, and back over to Georgia Avenue. Aspen Hill also includes the Kensington Volunteer Fire Department Station No. 21 (see map). According to the 2000 census this area includes 6222 homes and probably about 20,000 people. The subdivisions contained in this area include: Wheaton Woods; English Manor; Harmony Hills; Rock Creek Village; Brookhaven, Bel Pre Woods, Aspen Knolls and Rock Creek Valley. The Associations' membership year is from October 1st to September 30th and the dues are $7.00 per person or $12.00 per household. A membership form can be found in the Oct General Membership Meeting (includes Membership Form). If you become a member, in addition to the warm, fuzzy feeling you get(!), you will receive at least two yearly newsletters, occasional email updates on items of interest to the community, and the ability to vote for who you would like to see as Board members of this organization. Access to the Association web site is free and available to everybody.

The Civic Association promotes maintaining our community as a clean, beautiful and safe single-family residential area, a nice place to live. We work to keep our members informed about County Housing and other Codes and regulations, and about proposed or actual changes to the County Codes. We also promote member awareness of proposed changes of any kind which the County or State may plan for our area. Major concerns are proposed changes in neighborhood roadway intersections, which are scheduled to occur in the near future. We will do our best to keep our members informed of these things as we find out about them, and we often have County officials present their plans and activities at our meetings, both our monthly Board of Directors meetings as well as the twice yearly General Membership meetings. These meetings are always held at the Aspen Hill Library (at 4407 Aspen Hill Road, near Parkland Ave.), in the downstairs meeting room. We will do our best to assure that the concerns of the members will reach the appropriate officials of the County or State. Any resident of the area is cordially invited to attend either/both the General Membership meetings (May and October), as well as the monthly Board of Directors meetings, especially if they have a specific concern they wish to share.

In addition, during election years we usually hold candidate forums, with local candidates invited to speak at a special or scheduled meeting, where you can ask them questions on what their views are on a variety of subjects, and what they plan to do if elected. We currently have two of them scheduled, for September 12th and 19th, and they are listed on the Upcoming Events Schedule with more details as we are able to provide them.

The County Code Modifications of last year were passed, and now you can learn first hand what it means for you, for me, for all of us. There is a new web site which describes these new laws which went into effect on April 24th, 2011, and you can read about it here. As the web site states, "Preserving the quality of life in Montgomery County neighborhoods needs help from all of us. New County laws initiated by the County Executive and approved by the County Council are designed to help protect our residential neighborhoods. For exact details see the legislation or call 311.

Sections of the above web site link address the following: Home-based Businesses; Parking for Heavy Commercial and Recreational Vehicles; Parking Off-Street; Paving Front Yards; How These Laws Are Enforced; and Contact Information on who to call. It was partly our efforts that got these regulations on the books, but now it is up to YOU to to see that violations are reported and the intent of the regulations are fulfilled!

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LINKS OF INTEREST

...MONTGOMERY COUNTY ADOPTS NEW 311 NON-EMERGENCY PHONE NUMBER! You can now call 311 for ALL Montgomery County phone numbers, and the operator will transfer you to the appropriate department. Read about it in more detail on this card(in both English and Spanish).

... MAP with Boundaries of the Aspen Hill Civic Association, Inc.

...Web site of Montgomery County, MD.

...Speed camera locations... they are EVERYWHERE!. (Note: Click on appropriate box at top to locate fixed speed cameras, mobile speed cameras, and red light cameras. Also note that camera locations may be changed, so keep aware of signs.)

...Online Montgomery County Services.

...Pothole repair Services. (Note: This really works!)

...Friends of the Aspen Hill Library

...Weekly Updates of Community and Public Service News called Connected Communities. (Note: For your information we are in Mont. Co. Police District 4.)

...Location of AHCA in Police District 4

...Crime reports for our area

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I hope you have enjoyed visiting the AHCA Website. We will be adding more content and information about our area and things going on in our area as it becomes available. Come back to visit us again soon.

© 2012 AspenHillCivicAssociation, Inc. - All Rights Reserved

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Don Becker, Email:Webmaster(at)AspenHillCivicAssociation.org

Updated 4/10/2012

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