SNOW HILL– Citing traffic on Route 589, county officials said they wouldn’t support a rezoning request near the north entrance to Ocean Pines.
The Worcester County Planning Commission last week voted 5-1 to provide an unfavorable recommendation to a rezoning request for property across the street from the north gate to Ocean Pines.
“I personally feel this is where we have to put our foot down,” said commission member Phyllis Wimbrow.
At a meeting last week attorney Hugh Cropper presented the planning commission with a request to reclassify a 27-acre parcel of land zoned A-1 agricultural. Cropper said he was seeking to have a two-acre piece of the property zoned commercial and the remainder zoned A-2 agricultural.
“If you look at the permitted uses in the A-1 and A-2 they’re almost exactly the same,” Cropper said.