The owners of the Old Angler’s Inn in Potomac did not receive backing from the Montgomery County Planning Board for their bid to build a companion building with a banquet hall and overnight rooms near the historic restaurant.
According to Bethesda Magazine, planning board members said Thursday they did not have enough information on Mark and Sara Reges’ plan to build a 9,000-square-foot country inn to give it a proper evaluation.
The Reges’ proposed project has been controversial in Potomac, and the family — which has owned Old Angler’s Inn for six decades — has downsized its initial plans and made other changes since it first floated the project in 2015, according to the report.
Neighbors along MacArthur Boulevard and cyclists have expressed concerns about traffic and noise from people using the new banquet hall in an area that’s near the C&O Canal National Historical Park.
Mark and Sara Reges say their new building would sit the equivalent of three football fields from…
