Hearing examiner leaves record open on Cedar Village age-restricted housing proposal in Clarksville

The Howard County hearing examiner kept the record open after an evidentiary hearing in April 2025 on a conditional use petition for a 26-unit age-restricted housing development at 10879 Clarksville Pike in Clarksville.

The petitioner seeks a conditional use (BA 24-032 C) to build 26 age-restricted dwelling units on a parcel the applicant’s civil engineer described as “a little over 5 acres,” with a boundary survey showing 5.11 acres and a net developable area of 4.04 acres after subtracting Lot 163 (1.072 acres). John Carney, a civil engineer for Benchmark Engineering, said the resulting density would be about 6.44 dwelling units per acre, below the 7 dwelling-units-per-acre maximum cited in the technical staff report for age-restricted (ARH) development in the RSC zone.

The hearing examiner told the applicant to submit four items to close the record: (1) a final, dated and signed landscape plan consistent with Design Advisory Panel (DAP) responses; (2) a corrected and signed DAP response letter with the accurate DAP meeting date; (3) a revised conditional‑use/site plan showing the location of five on-street parking spaces to address a noted parking shortfall; and (4) a letter from the project’s landscape architect clarifying which DAP recommendations will be adopted. The examiner said that “upon receipt of those 4 items, a decision and order will be forthcoming.”

What the plan proposes and what was contested

The proposal calls for 16 duplex units and two groups of four attached units (four‑unit quads), a community building near the entrance, internal streets with a cul‑de‑sac sized for emergency vehicles, landscape buffers along Route 108, forest…