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Planning commission deadlocks on Dobson Lawn & Landscape site plan after neighbors press truck and compliance concerns
Summary
After hours of testimony about past noncompliance, truck counts and use of a private access road, the Talbot County Planning Commission deadlocked 2-2 on a site plan for Dobson Lawn & Landscape; commissioners asked for verifiable vehicle and staffing changes before reconsideration.
The Talbot County Planning Commission failed to approve a contested site plan for Dobson Lawn & Landscape on May 6 after a 2-2 roll-call vote, leaving the applicant’s request to operate a cottage-industry landscape business and a wholesale nursery unresolved.
Agent Zach Smith told the commission the applicant had sold the tree division and taken other steps to fit within cottage-industry limits. “That’s all that we’re seeking approval for,” Smith said, adding that the firm had provided monthly trip logs and a truck inventory intended to show compliance with the county code.
Neighbors and several commissioners disagreed that the record…
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