Sumner Place Chase Bank drive-thru ATM before MoCo Planning Board today

The proposed location of a
Chase Bank drive-thru ATM
is shown in yellow above

A freestanding drive-thru ATM proposed last fall for the new Chase Bank at the Shops at Sumner Place in Bethesda will be considered by the Montgomery County Planning Board today. It will be located on the Sentinel Drive edge of the lot, near where the United States Postal Service removed a longtime mailbox a few years ago. Chase Bank is in an in-line space some distance from the ATM site, near Safeway and Kicks Karate.

The ATM site plan includes landscaping, and will remove three parking spaces from the ample supply of parking at the former Little Falls Mall. In the review process, however, staff found that at least one tree the property owner had promised to plant in a previous project approval was never planted. Planting of that missing Zelkova tree has now been made a condition of the ATM approval.

A public meeting on the ATM proposal was held last September at the Little Falls Library. The Planning Department and applicant say they have received no objection from attendees nor the community at large to the ATM. Planning staff is recommending approval of the ATM. The meeting begins at 9:00 AM at 8787 Georgia Avenue in Silver Spring.