County Delays Hughesville Rezoning
(Scroll Down for the article) The Charles County commissioners voted last week to delay any decision on the controversial rezoning of 150 acres of land in Hughesville for another 90 days.
The decision pushes any decision on Chaney Enterprises' proposal to rezone the land on Route 231, which went to public hearing four months ago, into January.
Commissioner Samuel N. Graves Jr. (D) moved to delay the vote, saying that the commissioners needed to absorb information from 223 pages of documents concerning the rezoning proposal. Comment by Pauleen: Was a work session on this issue announced? I didn't know they were scheduled to possibly vote on this last week! UPDATE: In a sneaky and underhanded move, this issue was brought up during "New Business". We all know this is NOT New Business and any vote must ocurr during the scheduled work session!
Graves also moved to have the county's attorney and planning staff provide more information about the proposal's impacts on setbacks, buffering, permissible uses, safety, traffic and natural features. There was little discussion of Graves' proposal, and the commissioners voted unanimously to approve it. Comment by Pauleen: We already know the impact it will have on the revitalization plan - Maryland Department of Planning confirmed that for us!
How do you like Jay Friess' title? Sounds like he thinks it's a done deal.
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Let's see now, this rezoning has been going on since October 2007, the Commissioners work session was in June 2008, at which time all the letters and documents from the Planning commission were forwarded to the commissioners laptops; the next meeting was July 2008 at which time the open comment period ended, and all the pertinent documents were forwarded to the commissioners laptops. Now Graves needs more time review the 223 pages of documents. Maybe if he did his job on a daily basis instead of trying for photo ops, maybe he would get some real work done.
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