News Briefs 10/22/19
Lewes Public Art Committee to meet Oct. 22
The Lewes Public Art Committee will meet at 9:30 a.m., Tuesday, Oct. 22, at city hall. The group will review the Aug. 24 public art seminar and discuss proposals for next year’s temporary project, including theme, source, materials and funding. For details, call 302-645-7777.
Arbor-Lyn final site plan approved
At its Oct. 17 meeting, Sussex County Planning and Zoning Commission approved a final site plan for the Arbor-Lyn housing project along Warrington Road between Lewes and Rehoboth Beach. Approved by Sussex County Council in December 2016, the development will contain 100 single-family lots and 42 multifamily units on 35 acres adjacent to the Beebe Healthcare Specialty Surgical Hospital, which is under construction.
Developer Lockwood Design and Construction had originally filed for 202 units on the parcel. Planning and zoning and county council members voted to reduce the density from the proposed 5.7 units per acre to 4 units per acre, cutting the number of units to 142.
Mountaire request on Sussex P&Z agenda
Sussex County Planning and Zoning Commission will meet at 6 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 24, in the county administration building, 2 The Circle, Georgetown. Included on the agenda is a possible vote on a conditional-use application filed by Mountaire Farms of Delaware Inc. for spray irrigation of wastewater and sludge disposal on 352 acres on both sides of Townsend and Mount Joy roads near Millsboro. Sussex County Council’s public hearing on the application is scheduled for 1:30 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 5. See a complete agenda at www.sussexcountyde.gov. Meetings are broadcast live on the county website.
Hearing set on Rehoboth variances Nov. 15
During a meeting Oct. 18, Rehoboth Beach commissioners set a public hearing on an ordinance creating administrative variances for Friday, Nov. 15. According to a draft ordinance found on the city’s legislative portal, if approved, the building inspector would be allowed to administratively grant a building setback variance, side-yard variance, or rear-yard variance that does not exceed 1 foot. There is a $50 application fee.
Under the ordinance, the building inspector would send written notice of the administrative variance application to adjacent property owners and accept written comments for 10 working days from the date of mailing. If any adjacent property owner objects to the administrative variance, the building inspector would refer the application to the board of adjustment, and the administrative variance application fee shall be credited to the board of adjustment application fee, which is $1,000. For more information call 302-227-6181. A full copy of the draft ordinance can be found at town hall or online at www.cityofrehoboth.civicweb.net.
Lewes BPW set to meet Oct. 23
The Lewes Board of Public Works will meet at 4 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 23, at city hall. The group will give further consideration to a request from OA Vantage Point II for a waiver, reduction or deferral of impact fees for the Dutchman’s Harvest workforce housing project on Savannah Road. Officials will also discuss the capital improvement budget for 2019-23, consider revising a contract for effluent pipe rehabilitation, and consider terminating financing agreements and cancelling bonds with the Abbott Park sewer and water system improvement project. For details call BPW at 302-645-6228.
Developer withdraws Harbeson plan
A plan for a commercial complex along Route 9 in Harbeson has been withdrawn from Sussex County planning and zoning and county council consideration. During the Oct. 17 planning and zoning commission meeting, Director Janelle Cornwell said W&B Hudson Family was withdrawing an application to rezone a 37-acre parcel from AR-1, agricultural residential and MR, medium density residential, to a C-3, heavy commercial district. The proposed plan had been to build a retail shopping complex, which would have included a supermarket and drugstore. The commission was set to vote on a recommendation on the application following an Oct. 3 hearing.
