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Official Website of the Northwood-Four Corners Civic Association
Rachel Carson Meadow
The meadow in North Four Corners Park serves as our “village green” where Four Corners residents walk dogs, chat, watch fireflies, sled, toss a frisbee, read, and enjoy a hundred other pursuits. It’s a convenient spot for families, where kids can engage in unstructured outdoor play. Next door to the Oaks independent living facility, it’s also convenient for seniors. Residents named this green space after environmental activist and author Rachel Carson, who lived just on the other side of the Northwest Branch which borders NFCCA territory.
Since 2002, the Montgomery County Parks and Planning Board has been planning the
destruction of Rachel Carson Meadow and its replacement by an adult-sized soccer field
and 50-car parking lot. While ostensibly working with the community on this plan
(the board plans to plant trees on an existing ball field to create a “meadow-like
space” with no net gain in the number of ball fields), Parks and Planning have
consistently ignored the local residents’ desire to keep the existing meadow.
Please sign our Online Petition which asks Parks and Planning to use the $5 million slated for this one soccer field elsewhere in the county, especially where residents are requesting green space of their own.