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Owner signs annexation agreement for 3300 Harney Road; public hearing set for June council meeting
Summary
The applicant for 3300 Harney Road has signed an irrevocable annexation agreement and related property owners have consented to include a narrow 25-foot strip; the planning commission was briefed and the mayor and council are scheduled to hold the required public hearing after the county’s 60-day review period.
The Taneytown Planning Commission received a briefing on a proposed annexation for 3300 Harney Road and was told the property owner has signed an irrevocable annexation agreement and that related consents for adjoining strips of land have been secured.
Planning staff explained that the annexation packet was transmitted to Carroll County and that county rules require a 60-day period before the public hearing may be scheduled. The commission was told the public hearing will be scheduled for the council’s June meeting to satisfy the county’s 60-day requirement.
Commissioners and staff detailed the property configuration: the annexation includes the house and surrounding lot as well as a previously unrecognized 25-foot strip of land that lies between the subject lot and an adjacent Sewell property. The strip was previously thought contiguous with the Sewell parcel until recent surveying clarified it is a separate, narrow parcel. The owner of the adjacent Roll The Dice property signed a consent to annex for the 25-foot strip and for a narrow strip between the 3300 lot and the existing county right-of-way for Harney Road.
Commissioners asked whether the driveway entrance that currently lies partly on the thin strip would require an easement or other agreement. Planning staff said the driveway arrangement is not directly pertinent to the annexation as long as contiguity and legal description requirements are met for the annexation process; staff advised that any driveway access issues are a matter for the property owners to resolve and may not be recorded in existing land records.
Commissioners also discussed the expectation that, when the Sewell property develops, Harney Road likely will be offered for acceptance as a city road; in the interim, staff indicated the county would initially accept a deed of a narrow strip and that the city does not want to own an isolated, small parcel pending future road acceptance.
No formal commission vote on annexation was recorded at the meeting; the applicant’s signed annexation agreement was presented to the commission for information and the council-level public hearing process was described.
