Germantown’s landmark giant globe may be repainted.

I haven’t had much time for blogging this week, and today is busy too. But there’s a lot of Montgomery County news today, so let’s just shoot through it real quick like.

• The Montgomery County Fairgrounds are considering possible redevelopment scenarios with the City of Gaithersburg. The fairgrounds are smack in the middle of everything, within walking distance to stations on the MARC line and the future Corridor Cities Transitway, and right up against I-270. The redevelopment scenarios aren’t actual proposals, just illustrations of what could happen.
• County Executive Isiah Leggett – essentially the mayor of Montgomery County – has formed a transit task force charged with studying how to best advance bus and train projects in the county.
• Speaking of bus projects in the county, MTA’s new ICC bus routes are now running. There are two routes starting in Gaithersburg. One ends at Fort Meade and the other at BWI. Rides are free through March 14.
• A water tank in Germantown that’s painted like a giant world globe and is visible from miles away may be repainted. Officials haven’t decided yet whether to keep the tank a globe or to give it a different look, such as that of a baseball.
• Developers want to build a 75-foot-tall apartment building in downtown Kensington near the MARC station. The area has a 60-foot height limit, but the developers say they can’t make the project work without 15 more feet.
• Preparations are underway for construction at Lot 31 in downtown Bethesda, the large surface parking lot adjacent to Barnes and Noble on Woodmont Avenue. The parking lot will be replaced by an underground public parking garage with mixed-use buildings on top.