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Landowners ask Taneytown to reclassify frontage and consider future annexations
Summary
Two landowners and a nearby resident addressed the commission: a resident said he could not afford annexation costs, while a 35-acre property owner proposed converting corner frontage to commercial and signaled openness to a coordinated annexation to resolve enclave issues.
Several members of the public used the meeting’s comment period to raise annexation concerns and land-use requests for areas along Harney Road.
Resident Larry Danner told the commission he is a long-time property owner who is on a fixed income and worried that future annexation or development next door would require costly utility connections or otherwise disrupt his household finances. “I’m on limited income... I can’t afford to move even,” Danner said when identifying…
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