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Council reviews amended annexation agreement for Dowd Farm; council asks for traffic study before PUD hearing
Summary
Hagerstown City Council on Feb. 18 discussed a proposed amendment to the annexation agreement for the roughly 112‑acre Dowd Farm property, focusing on required access to the Dual Highway and deadlines for dedication or construction tied to phased development.
Hagerstown City Council on Feb. 18 discussed a proposed amendment to the annexation agreement for the roughly 112-acre Dowd Farm property on the city’s eastern edge, a change the developer and the city say is designed to make the site usable for a pending planned-unit development (PUD).
The change would replace multiple older annexation conditions with a shorter set of updated conditions tied to a phased buildout, and would require creation of a new access to the Dual Highway. Pat Flynn, legal representative for the property owners, said the revised agreement “makes that access required mandatory” and that “by the tenth anniversary of the phase 1 approvals, we would have to dedicate that ground.”
Why it matters: the property was annexed in 2010 under conditions aimed at channeling development and protecting circulation in the area. The council’s decision on the annexation…
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