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Board of Appeals unanimously allows driveway and sidewalk inside 100-foot critical-area buffer at Piney Point property
Summary
The Saint Mary's County Board of Appeals voted unanimously April 24 to grant a variance allowing disturbance of the 100-foot critical-area buffer at 16584 Piney Point Road to install an asphalt driveway and a concrete sidewalk.
LEONARDTOWN, Md. — The Saint Mary's County Board of Appeals voted unanimously April 24 to grant a variance allowing disturbance of the 100-foot critical-area buffer at 16584 Piney Point Road to install an asphalt driveway and a concrete sidewalk.
Applicant Jacob Waite sought the variance, docketed as VAAP25-0376, after he said the house at the address lacked direct access from Piney Point Road and the existing yard becomes impassable when tides recede. The board approved the request after staff described site conditions, required mitigation and a buffer-management plan.
The variance request covers an existing 4,834-square-foot parcel owned by Myrtle Cottage Oasis, LLC. The property is zoned Rural Preservation with a Critical Area overlay classified as Limited Development Area and is developed with a house built in 1930, staff said. The proposal calls for an asphalt…
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