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Work group urges changes to maritime zoning to aid small marinas; committee requests broader review
Summary
A work group convened by planning and zoning recommended amendments to the 2021 maritime ordinance (O25.1) to expand how small marinas in the WME zone can convert limited space to general business use and suggested incentivized alternatives to inflexible parking and flat fees.
Members of an Annapolis Small Maritime Business Workgroup presented findings to the Rules and Government Committee and urged adjustments to O25.1 (the 2021 maritime ordinance) to better accommodate small maritime businesses, particularly parcels in the WME zone that the work group said were effectively excluded by size-based triggers in the 2021 rules.
Hope Stewart, the city's small minority business enterprise liaison in the Department of Planning and Zoning, and Seth Lehner, a Hornpoint Harbor representative, summarized the work group's three months of meetings and five recommendations. Lehner said, "The businesses that were impacted the most by this ordinance were the small marinas in the WME zone," and the group proposed…
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