OCEAN CITY – The Ocean City Planning Board is soliciting citizen comment on land use and zoning issues facing the city as it starts the process of re-examining the city’s Master Plan. All residents are invited to the first of several public meetings in the process on Wednesday, August 3 from 6:30–8:30 p.m. in the lecture hall of the Ocean City Public Library.
The re-exam process, a periodic review mandated by state law, asks a community to evaluate how well its master plan and existing zoning regulations fit current land use conditions. The process also asks the community to identify the need for changes to those documents.
Ocean City’s current comprehensive master plan was adopted in 1988 and most recently re-examined and amended in 2006. The re-exam process that will start with this public meeting is expected to take several months and last into 2012 before final adoption. After gathering all relevant data and undergoing much study and debate, the process will end with a Planning Board checklist of sections of the Master Plan and/or zoning ordinances that should be amended or at least studied before the next re-exam process.
Planning Board planner Randy Scheule will open the public meeting with an explanation of that step-by-step process. Public comment will follow the planner’s presentation. Residents who wish to address the Planning Board should sign a speakers’ list as they enter the room and plan to limit their comments to three minutes in order to accommodate as many citizens as possible.
The Planning Board is committed to transparent re-exam process with several public meetings, opportunities to submit written comments if residents are unable to attend meetings, notices on the city’s access TV channel and in other local media, as well as posting of information on the city’s website.
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