News Briefs 7/23/21
Rehoboth BoA to meet July 26
The Rehoboth Beach Board of Adjustment will meet at 1:30 p.m., Monday, July 26, in the commissioners room of city hall, 229 Rehoboth Ave.
The board will hear a request for a variance at 509 Lee St. According to the city building inspector’s report, the owners of the property, zoned R-1 Residential, are seeking a variance to reduce the required setback along State Road from 19.80 feet to 10 feet.
A full agenda and meeting materials are accessible at cityofrehoboth.civicweb.net. For more information, call 302-227-6181.
Freeman hearing on July 27 Sussex agenda
Sussex County Council will meet at 10 a.m., Tuesday, July 27, in the county administration building, 2 The Circle, Georgetown. The agenda includes a 1:30 p.m. public hearing on a conditional-use application filed by Carl M. Freeman Companies for a hotel and restaurant on a 9-acre parcel on the northwest side of the Lighthouse Road/Route 54 and Bennett Avenue intersection near Fenwick Island. Sussex County Planning and Zoning Commission has recommended denial of the application. See a complete agenda and meeting materials at sussexcountyde.gov/agendas-minutes/county-council. Meetings are in person, livestreamed at sussexcountyde.gov/council-chamber-broadcast and accessible by calling 302-394-5036 using code 570176.
Georgetown National Night Out set Aug. 3
Georgetown’s National Night Out event will take place from 6 to 8 p.m., Tuesday, Aug. 3, at the Richard Allen School, 316 South Railroad Ave. It will include a cookout with free food, youth events, demonstrations and exhibits from police and emergency services, and more.
The event is co-sponsored locally by the Georgetown Police Department and Georgetown CommUNITY, a coalition of individuals, organizations, and neighborhoods dedicated to sponsoring projects that help people find common ground, discover what they all collectively value and illuminate what makes Georgetown a special place.
National Night Out is an annual community-building campaign that promotes strong police-community partnerships and neighborhood camaraderie to make neighborhoods safer, more caring places to live and work.
For details, email info@georgetownde.community.
Rehoboth seeks Christmas tree donor
It’s the middle of summer, but the City of Rehoboth Beach is already researching where to find the perfect 2021 Christmas tree.
Rehoboth Beach hosts an annual community tree-lighting and sing-along event the Friday after Thanksgiving at the bandstand. The 35- to 40-foot evergreen that serves as the community’s Christmas tree is donated each year by an area resident, with services to cut down, transport and install it at the bandstand provided by elves at JL Briggs & Company, George W. Plummer & Son, and Delmarva Power.
Anyone who has a large tree on their property that they’d like to see as a focal point for the Rehoboth Beach holiday celebration is asked to contact Communications Specialist Lynne Coan at lcoan@cityofrehoboth.com or 302-227-6181, Ext. 522. Spruce and Douglas fir trees make great Christmas trees, but any nicely shaped evergreen tree will do.
CleanBay recycling plant plans approved
At its July 8 meeting, Sussex County Planning and Zoning Commission approved a preliminary site plan for a $60 million, 490,000-square-foot CleanBay Renewables chicken litter nutrient recovery/electrical generation facility on a 17-acre parcel at the intersection of Route 113 and Breasure Road south of Georgetown.
A conditional-use application for the project was approved by Sussex County Council July 31, 2018.
During public hearings, Thomas Spangler, owner and founder of the company, said the plant will process 250 tons of litter per day.
Methane gas will be produced using an enclosed anaerobic digestive/fermentation process that would power generators to provide electricity to the grid purchased by Delaware Electric Cooperative. Some litter will be recycled through a nutrient recovery facility where phosphorus and nitrogen will be separated into two products.
A granular phosphorus product would be trucked to markets in the Midwest where it is in great demand.
Leftover nitrogen would be turned into a soil product and sold to fertilizer companies.
