Parking, site plan details challenged
A disagreement over parking and site plan details for a scaled down oceanfront hotel at the site where a large Margaritaville resort has also been proposed in downtown Ocean City was debated at length in a court hearing March 21.
Last fall, shortly after developer MHROC Property Owner LLC gained site plan approval for a smaller, 230-room hotel between 13th and 14th streets in Ocean City, Harrison Hall Hotel Inc. and several nearby property owners filed a petition for judicial review in Worcester County Circuit Court. The filing challenged the zoning administrator’s determination of parking plans, as well as the site plan’s proposed access to accessory uses on the ground floor. After the March 21 hearing, Judge Leah Seaton said she would issue an opinion at a later date.
“I haven’t seen more than one or two cases this complicated,” she said.