Board of Appeals — 2024-09-25

This is a comment letter from the Maryland Critical Area Commission to the Town of Centreville about the Savage Variance for 110 Watson Road, where the applicant seeks permission to disturb the Critical Area Buffer to replace an existing deck and add a new driveway and walkways (the property is entirely in the Critical Area, partly RCA and partly IDA). The Commission asks for a revised buffer delineation, advises the Board of Appeals to confirm variance standards and ask the applicant to justify safety needs and minimum relief, notes required 3:1 Buffer mitigation (applicant proposes 10,617 sf planting plus 12 offsite trees) and that proposed stormwater measures (rain garden and dry well) meet the 10% IDA requirement, and records that the 1987 deck may be replaced in kind and shoreline changes may warrant a living shoreline discussion with MDE.