On Wednesday, the planning commission agreed to forward the proposed amendment, which will allow the apartment complex to include buildings larger than those currently permitted, on to the council with a favorable recommendation. While the commission had already done so once, at the request of the council the text amendment was changed to include a limit — 36 units — on a building’s potential size. Attorney Mark Cropper, who proposed the amendment on behalf of developer Blair Rinnier, said the change would simply allow the developer to construct buildings of 24 and 36 units as opposed to the 12-unit buildings currently allowed by town code.
“In his opinion, he can do a nicer, more attractive project if he can exceed 12 units,” Cropper said.
Rinnier has presented plans to build a 700-plus unit apartment complex on Seahawk Road. Site plan approval for the first, 150-unit phase of the project was granted but was contingent on the town council’s passage of a text amendment that would enable Rinnier to build the 24- and 36-unit buildings shown in the plan. The amendment stated that when “public necessity, convenience, general welfare and good zoning practice” will be better served by buildings with more than 12 units, the planning commission “may allow a multi-family building to consist of any number of dwelling units as determined on a case by case basis.”
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Those apartments are making Berlin just like Salisbury with all the ghetto trash and crime. Thugs moving into Berlin and Ocean City. Just what we need the Eastern Shore turning into the Thug Capital of Maryland. I wish those people would quit breeding like cock roaches.
LOL 6:50. Berlin was just named as one the the top ten Redneck towns in Maryland. Now you know why. Stack shacks and track housing equals redneck big time.
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