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Board of Appeals approves 162-foot pier replacement for Shipping Creek Partners with safety-lighting condition
Summary
The Queen Anne's County Board of Appeals granted a variance allowing Shipping Creek Partners LLC to replace an existing pier to a length of approximately 162 feet from the mean high-water line, finding practical difficulty and historic presence; the board added a condition requiring installation and maintenance of safety lighting.
Chairman McGinnis and the Board of Appeals granted a variance on the application from Shipping Creek Partners LLC to replace an existing pier extending about 162 feet from the mean high-water line, a length that exceeds the county’s 150-foot limit and the ‘‘half-the-waterway’’ restriction.
Planning and Zoning zoning inspector Mike Galls told the board the county’s records show permit 808260 (issued Aug. 10, 1976) authorized a 100-foot pier, but aerial imagery in the QAC GIS shows a 162-foot configuration by 1978; staff said it had not documented a legally nonconforming authorization sufficient to allow replacement…
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