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Frederick County approves Appleland Properties land‑use change after contested public hearing
Summary
The Board of Supervisors approved a comprehensive plan amendment to reclassify four Appleland Properties parcels (about 96.8 acres) from business to residential and add them to the county’s Urban Development Area after a public hearing and debate over whether the county should preserve an existing planned roadway through the site.
The Frederick County Board of Supervisors voted to amend the county comprehensive plan to change the future‑land‑use designation for four parcels totaling about 96.83 acres (the "Appleland Properties") from business to residential and to include the parcels within the county—nvironment's Urban Development Area.
The vote followed a public hearing in which county planning staff, the applicant and representatives of the town of Stephens City debated whether a planned north–south collector road should be retained through the subject parcels. Planning staff recommended keeping a collector connection that would better complete the surrounding planned Steven/Stephens City bypass; the Planning Commission had recommended removing the northern collector through the property. The Board approved the amendment by a recorded vote (final tally reported in the meeting as 5-2). The change does not authorize any construction or rezoning; rezoning would follow if the applicant seeks development entitlements.
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