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Rocky Gorge Development Emergency Action - For the purpose of addressing the Rocky Gorge Development's "Aris T. Allen Boulevard" project, a 23-acre site platted for 48 single-family housing units; calling for an immediate stop work order on site development, and requiring a report on the project.
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CITY COUNCIL OF THE
City of Annapolis
Resolution 50-22
Introduced by: Alderwoman Finlayson
Co-sponsored by:
A RESOLUTION concerning
Rocky Gorge Development Emergency Action
FOR the purpose of addressing the Rocky Gorge Development's "Aris T. Allen Boulevard" project, a 23-acre site platted for 48 single-family housing units; calling for an immediate stop work order on site development, and requiring a report on the project.
WHEREAS, the Rocky Gorge Development's "Aris T. Allen Boulevard" project, a 23-acre site platted for 17 single-family detached and 31 single-family attached units, first received planned unit development in 2006 from the Board of Appeals, and was subsequently tolled/extended until 2014; and
WHEREAS, the Annapolis City Council has updated many regulations impacting development in the City of Annapolis in the 16 years since the original project approval, including a stronger Forest Conservation law, stronger Moderately-Priced Dwelling Unit law, stormwater regulations, and other such laws since the Rocky Gorge Development Annapolis project was initially approved in 2006; and
WHEREAS, the Rocky Gorge project applied for a grading permit in 2020 and was issued the permit in 2022 when construction commenced; and
WHEREAS, permitting and approvals are in question due to project delays between original approval in 2006 and construction commencement in 2022, including:
grading and building permits pre-dating 2020 that was canceled per a September 16, 2020 Annapolis Code Enforcement e-mail; possible expiration of the original 2006 planned development approval per ?21.24.110.A2; the project's forest conservation approval pre-dating ...
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