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Frostburg hires community development staff; smoke-detector code discrepancy flagged for council review
Summary
Community Development reported 9 permit applications in October, completion of housing and community-facilities elements of the comprehensive-plan rewrite for internal review, and that many failed rental inspections are tied to a smoke-detector interconnectedness wording discrepancy—staff estimate about 80% of the flagged failures relate to that issue and will bring a recommended code fix to council next month.
Community Development told the Frostburg mayor and council on Nov. 18 that the department received nine permit applications in October, including two new single-family houses, issued a commercial use-and-occupancy for a hair salon on West Main Street, and completed 73 rental-unit inspections in October (16 reinspections).
Staff said two larger projects were among the October permits and that the consultant working on the…
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