OCEAN CITY — After considerable debate, resort officials this week approved a proposed code amendment allowing for tandem, or stacked parking, with a valet system for some major downtown redevelopment projects including the proposed Margaritaville project.
The Mayor and Council reviewed the changes Monday after the town’s planning commission in April held a public hearing on the proposed code amendment and forwarded a favorable recommendation to the Mayor and Council.
In simplest terms, if a redevelopment project for a hotel complex or a commercial use in the downtown area could not meet its minimum parking space requirements on-site, tandem parking, or spaces in which vehicles are stacked on behind the other, could be utilized to meet the minimum requirements as long as a comprehensive parking management system, or valet service, for example, was provided. In other words, if a project required 100 parking spaces according to the code, 20% of them could be tandem, or stacked, spaces to meet the minimum requirement.
The code amendment is somewhat specific to major projects already in the planning pipeline, including the Margaritaville project. The proposed project over 12 different lots would include 265 hotel rooms, three restaurants, including the JWB Grill with high-end steaks and seafood, the Landshark Bar and Grill and a coffee shop and provisions store in the lobby. The project would also include three outdoor pools and one indoor pool, a wellness center and gym, 14,000 square feet of flexible convention center space, retail stores facing the Boardwalk and many other upscale amenities.
Planning and Community Development Director Bill Neville explained the proposed code amendment recommended by the planning commission.
Well all thats left is to build up! Plus the higher you go, the better the view of the wind mills.
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A good hurricane is needed to sink that island. It just attracts more and more crime and trash from people who don’t respect the area. OC has not been a FAMILY vacation spot for decades. There is no family atmosphere in OC. That way there will be no need of dual lanes on 90 and not another BAY BRIDGE. Drive all to VA / NC / SC and give the EASTERN SHORE their heritage and peaceful living back.
Like in the picture…Rickie and Company hoped for a packed weekend. Uhh….not even half packed. Sorry Charley’s. U will get it memorial day weekend…..unless it rains.
Be glad the fiscal year ends at the end of June. After the June bugs and other elements leave.