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BMZA approves Buckeye Partners’ proposal for butane storage at Curtis Bay after finding net water‑quality benefits
Summary
Baltimore City’s zoning appeals board voted unanimously to allow Buckeye Partners to install three 60,000‑gallon butane storage vessels at its Curtis Bay terminal, finding the project would reduce impervious cover and truck idling and meet conditional‑use and critical‑area standards.
The Baltimore City Board of Municipal and Zoning Appeals on Monday approved Buckeye Partners’ request to add three 60,000‑gallon butane storage tanks at its Curtis Bay maritime industrial terminal, granting a conditional use for industrial‑general activity, a variance to expand an existing grandfathered terminal in the Chesapeake Bay critical area, and an exception to the code’s list of prohibited critical‑area uses.
Justin Walker of the Department of Planning told the board the applicant met the technical standards for conditional use in the MI (maritime industrial) district and for the critical‑area exceptions listed in the Natural Resources Article and city code.…
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