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Glazed Pine, rejected earlier, back with new building plan
Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2007
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The revamped Glazed Pine development proposal near Patuxent River Naval Air Station is coming back for county government approvals, after being turned down as a planned-unit development by the St. Mary’s planning commission.
Capt. Glen Ives, commanding officer at Pax River, wrote in a March letter to county officials that the development was too large and too close to the confines of the Navy base.
In its previous form, Glazed Pine would have brought more than 1,000 homes and more than 1 million square feet of office, commercial and retail space to property between Hermanville Road and Three Notch Road. In its latest design, the project proposes instead 201 homes on 56 acres, but retains plans for more than 1 million square feet of other use on another 154 acres.
At a review meeting last week, planner Bob Bowles said he wasn’t sure how developer Guy Curley would achieve the housing density on 56 acres. Single-family homes would be surrounded by townhomes and the second phase of the project would bring 47 apartments.
Parts of the property are under the Air Installation Compatible Use Zone, which discourages dense housing near the military base. County government is working to ban new homes in a portion of the AICUZ and ban homes in the office business park zone, which also affects zoning on the 200-acre property.
The restructured Glazed Pine proposal will be reviewed by the planning commission.
Staff planners also reviewed last week two other large projects for St. Mary’s. The Vogel Charlotte Hall project plans for 767,527 square feet of commercial⁄retail space on 21 acres. The project would encompass the Wawa Food Market in Charlotte Hall at Mt. Wolfe Road. The site plan shows five pad sites, with two large ones. No tenants have yet been identified. Vogel Charlotte Hall is owned by Mark Vogel Companies.
And a project called Grandview Haven in Morganza has changed form. Its first phase was approved for 111 homes, but its second phase for 51 more was denied by the county commissioners, who refused to vote on a central water system there. Since then, developer Dean Beck has moved forward with smaller-scaled projects on the property. There are five lots recorded there now and 19 more are on the way for those 55 years old and older. The latest proposal calls for 25 ‘‘workforce” homes called Fairview Farm. They would be rental units and the project might need approval for a central water system as well, Bowles said.
