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Board affirms violations over unpermitted roof and lagoon use at Peaviner Road farm
Summary
The Caroline County Board of Zoning Appeals affirmed four violation notices against Wakefield Holdings for unpermitted construction and use at 23092 Peaviner Road, including an unpermitted roof over a feed trough and changes to a lagoon used to store manure and, earlier, food-processing residuals. The board directed the owner to seek required permits; a written decision will follow.
The Caroline County Board of Zoning Appeals on Oct. 23 affirmed multiple violation notices against Wakefield Holdings and owner Benjamin Fleahart for work and uses at 23092 Peaviner Road in Ridgely.
Chair Ben Butler opened the evidentiary hearing and the board admitted the staff report and a Maryland Department of the Environment letter into the record. Appellants’ counsel, Demetrius Kowaris, argued the small steel pent roof over a feed bunk and the use of an on-site lagoon for cow manure are agricultural activities that either are exempt from substantive building-code requirements or should qualify for agricultural permits. Kowaris asked the board to reverse the county’s determinations.
Planning and zoning staff, represented by Mark Gabler, told the board an agricultural-structure exemption in Chapter 88 does…
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