Planning Commission Minutes — 2020-06-17

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QUEENSTOWN PLANNING COMMISSION
June 17,2020
7:00 p.m.
***Due to continued COVID-l9 restraints, the meeting was held remotely viaZoom.
Meeting called to order at7z04 p.m. by Phil Snyder, Chairman
GUESTS -
l.
Barry Waterman - Concept Plan for Wheatland's
a. Displayed the master development plan unit mix. The idea is to push the
houses up to the side walk 5-10 feet back and more community environment
like Gibson gant.
b. Described the roads in and out of the development it is 30 wide, main road.
c. All of community pads have their own community parking in their pad. Other
roads are20 feet wide, I lane in each direction, same size as Gibson grant.
This is intentional to have parking on both sides to slow down traffic.
d. Community amenities - trail through the buffer, assuming to be allowed by
state as recreation.
e. Half acre of park across from cottages,
f. Dog park
300 ft buffer so Hickory Ridge won't see coflrmunity and not to allow water
E.
access as Mr. Waterman believes it is too far from water to have the
community have yataway access.
h. First build phase ib..the central core and town hou e and part of single-family
homes.
Trees to be installed no other landscaping- see architect plans for description
of tree canopies recommended
Mr. Paul Cain asked if there is access for boat and trailer on owners' property.
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Mr. Barry Waterman responded, we have land or we do like Gibson grant
community has in place, there are comer areas to park your boat.
k. Mixing up size of lots, and houses will have 5-foot side yards for a total of 10
feet between the homes. Varied house tlpes and price ranges meet needs of
lots of different people some have front access and some have rear access
capability for cars.
t. Mr. Mat Reno asked what is o/o of home with front load garages? Asking for
reason, that typically, home that have garage's on front of house and car does
not go in garage, could lead to alarge parking lot and not eye pleasing. See
the architect plan for homes, cottages, and or townhouse for front, rear
parking capability.
m. Two areas of cottage home and front on a communal court, garden walkway,
this is for folks who do not have an interest of having a yard. The plans
displayed many homes of different style architecture to coincide with the
existing Town of Queenstown design, style and culture.

2.
Mr. Matt Reno provided that most of the comments he entered into the digital map
have already been addressed. Mr. Reno proceeded with questioning on the SHA lot,
no trail connection as it is the state highway, can it be negotiated? Mr. Barry
waterman has no objection but it is up to the state to make this determination. Mr.
Reno proceeded with the below iterns (see the digital plans for the area's noted with
comments from Mr. Reno):
a.
Concemed about open spaces to be useful and not impact local residences,
dog park - Mr. Barry Waterman stated the area that Mr. Reno referred to to
address as a dog park is actually a storm water area and they are the natural
drainage for property and it is the lowest part and they cannot be switched..
b.
Sidewalk crossing can it be adjacent to nature trail? Have crosswalk identified
c.
On main drive coming in roadway-
i.
where would the sidewalks go as they only go to rt. 50.? Mr.
Waterman stated, they provide you could walk to whatever services
would be there. In the past, State has said traffic light not needed, now
state has said that a light would be needed. So, people on Sportsman
Neck can get out of their community more easily.
d. Means of access to Wye river for kayak launching, - Mr. Waterman stated he
does not want to raise issues with the residents of the existing community.
An area to be dedicated for maintenance area and gate for the town
maintenance crew and who maintains the trail to offload and maintain the
open space? Mr. Waterman-This has not been taken into account
Mr. Barry Waterman requested- who is going to figure out who is going to
maintain this, in the past, the town does state that they do not want to own the
recreation areas and the HOA should own it. Issue needs to be addressed.
Someone is going to have to pickup trash and spray trail and maintain the
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Mr. Peter Johnston- Is there going to be a trail head location for the people
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who do want to park car to gain access to the trail? Itern to be considered.
i. Mr. Johnston recommend to the Planning Commissioner's, don't give
idea of access to water, this is a Queenstown project and access to
water is important, negotiate with critical area, get a rack for people to
have ability to leave a kayak.
ii. Mr. Matt Reno if we need to get additional parking to get access to
trail and kayak who and how to address?
iii. Mr. Peter Johnston, access to water and nature and if trail allowed,
town will have to have more negotiation with critical area.
h. Last area, triangle area- community garden concept or a farm market
i. Mr. Peter Johnston on discussion of a roundabout. And a tumaround on east
side to possible extend down the road.
Mr. Matt Reno- parking avail for folks that do not live in community or visit
friends, try to fit in parking that not utilized by residents is a challenge.
k. Mr. Peter Johnston- park on both sides to slow down traffic. View pedestrian
walking as the primary and cars less so.
l. Mr. Barry Waterman- drive through woods in gravel road and Gibson grant
community is set up so that physically cannot drive quickly. This is all

intentional to slow down traffic. Did ask traffic consultants to see if can make
a traffic circle work. Got a permit to fill I acre of wet lands, look at difference
between round about and a traffic circle, consider the difference.
m. Mr. Matt Reno- all had mentioned how to manage the are if HOA or the town
and still needs to be determined. Can a dedicated lot for boats to file for
permit to have people leave boat there?
i.
Ms. Loretta Hohmann- allowing folks to leave boats and trailers would
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lead to who handles the property when a boat is abandoned? What
oil spill etc.
Mr . Barry Waterman had previously mentioned- one thing has consistently
come to the surface, - recreation area should be owned by town, the Town
Commissioners have said no in the pffit, , we will need an HOA and have to
have a review of who maintains the grass and other areas? The town could
pick and choose, for example, do you (the Town) want dog park and not other
areas? To maintain?
o. Ms. Lyndsey Ryan- on board for town to manage the recreation area, but we
need to see a finance on the numbers to best determine costs involved..
3. The Udoff s -Rob and Lisa Udoff - 204 Old Wharf Lane
RE: Site plan for new home and Critical Area Mitigation Plan for Property
Purchased the lot to build a ranch home. Worked with Mr. Peter Johnston and
want to produce a beautiful property. They are in for site plan approval and they have
addressed the coverage issues with mitigation plan for critical area. They are in
building envelope, no remaining issues with this property. This discussion is for Ms.
Amy Moore to issue a building permit.
Mr. Matt Reno asked - regarding the landscaping, any planting along east and west
side? Mr. Udoffresponded - Planting in front and back of house. Idea not to plant
anything alongside Eventually yes, this is going to be their forever home. Have an
education in native tree's and shrubs and in time see things happening.
Mr. Matt Rerno made a motion to approve building plan, Mr. Paul Cain seconded the
motion, vote taken, Aye 5, nay 0 motion is passed and motion approved.
PUBLIC COMMENT - none
TOWII MANAGER UPDATES
At April 22,2020 an ernail requesting Town Commissioner and for the office staff to obtain
granfpermission for 2ndAve dock project and all Town Commissioners were in agreement and
trails projects to be paid for by grants and funding.
Membranes were replaced on June I and2 this is the best that plant has operated and best that it
has run. There is a new operator and problerns detected and under control all areas of plant
operating as they should.
Smoke test of sewer main drains, no one major problern , quite a few broken lateral pipes
Town Commissioners approved a tax credit for all active volunteer town firemen that live in
town. This is due to an issue of getting new members, 14 members would qualiff for the tax

relief. The county came up with tax credit of alUYo credit. Based on what the county gave,
(county 1500 tax credit) and town would give a $150 credit that would be maxed out after 5
years and remain same thereafter.
Only I credit per household. This is a state developed plan.
Town reopened parks, running as normal, office not open, maybe by mid-July.
Town commissioners- Possibly having 1" Summer concert on July 18,2020.
Mr. Mike Bowell - asked, did we (the town) have agrant to connect the trail to the pier on 2no
Ave? Ms. Moore stated, we had the money, $80,000Ieft over and the total cost for completion
was $120,000 based on the cost the engineer gave us, the 80k was not anywhere near what we
needed to maintain the walk, based on what Mr. Matt Reno had asked about in an ernail, we are
re-applying for the grant.
Mr. Matt Reno asked -Why did we not phase it to work it in? It never came to Planning
Commissioner's for a comment. The cost was high and we got estimates and not quotes, and why
did we return the money?/ The open spaces can provide a grant and have the town submit an
application based off the design that was glven to us, and have architect revisit the design and
find a local contractor to give an idea of what we should ask the grant for. Community park and
playground funding, we should be going after. Deadline is Aug27,2020,,. Mr. Matt Reno will
work with his contacts at Department of Parks and Recreation and work on the verbiage for the
ganI.,
Mr. Peter Johnston, -boardwalk project- this area is open to the public, by accepting sate money,
everybody from public can use it.
Public can apply for a boat slip, the dockmaster does not have anything to do with rentals.
Ms. Loretta Hohmann asked- Who pays for the dumpster at the town dock? Ms. Moore stated,
We (the town) get $510 for boat slip, which in turn provides a supply of water and trash. The
cost of the dumpster comes out of rental. The dumpster, allows public to access and allow public
to use it, How to block for people to throw trash that are either not from town or have a boat
slip?
Dredging- Ms. Moore provided that we don't have money for funding the dredge of docks and
will need a grant. As of yet, no permit. The permit does not include the boat ramp, only I't and
2nd Ave piers. It is grant money not town money, seek to amend the permit to include the boat
ramp. It is an option to include the boat ramp. Permit has been delayed possibly due to covid-l9.
If we can amend permit to allow improvernent for boat ramp, could we improve it ourselves with
our own improvements. We could look into doing the improvements ourselves. The land fill
Baker is going to take the spoils, have to have soil samples taken.
OLD BUSINESS:
1. Trails Master Plan Discussion
A. Mr. Reno provided the following:
a.
Draft plan review as of last week zero comments from focus
b.
added a few extra comments for boat launch to 2"d Ave.
c.
Nest stage, to send draft to Queen Anne's County - comments and then
present to ggneral public,

d. get copies for pier and kayak plan launch and add those into the plan.
e. Get to public first, get a notification to people on town newsletter or via the
water bill and put for two weeks of comments.
f.
Wrap up by July for changes and send to county.
g. Mr. Johnston suggests creating a small ppt for folks to get cliff notes version
through slide presentation instead of reading the whole document,
NEW BUSINESS:
l. Minutes - March 4,2020 - don't have, they were not supplied. Mr. Mike Bowell will try
to find them. Postponed minutes approval
2. Richard Davis -245 Harbor Lane - Site Plan Revision
a. Requesting additional lot coverage with what was permitted. Originally, was
permitted to go over 775 sq. ft. Mr. Davis, came back with a plan way over what
would be permitted. He submitted a plan to modifu and is now requesting an
additional; 90 sq. ft.
i. Mr. Johnston - commented that this is under the critical for lda Mr. Davis
was allowed to increase coverage above I5Yo.The Planning Commission
made the finding that it was the least amount of impact on wildlife and
water, above the extent of what he is allowed to do, Planning Commission
makes same findings again. We are allowed to go to 4700 sq. ft. Mr. Davis
increasing to 4629.
1.
Planning Commission makes the finding in 29.8.6 of the Queenstown
zoning code regarding lot 6 at Queenstown Harbor and authorizes a
zoning certificate.
2.
Mr. Mike Bowell made the motion to accept the findings. Mr. Paul Cain
seconded the motion. Vote taken, Aye 5, Nay 0. All in favor, motion
passed.
3. Community Parks and Playground Program Grant Funding FY202l discussed
ADJOURNMENT
Motion to adjourn the meeting made by Mr. Matt Reno, second by Mr. Mike Bowell. Meeting
adjourned at 9:03 p.m.
Respectfu lly submitted,
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Loretta Hohmann, Secretary