Have You Signed the Petition Yet About the Eastport Shopping Center Project?

For those on the side-line or who support the project, know this. It is safe to say that the project as currently proposed will have scale and scope creep over time.

Check out all of the large scale projects approved and constructed over the past few years. Have all of them grown well beyond the original scale ? For the project proponents the original approvals are only a starting point. I would say they almost or always get the project they wanted before they had to appear to compromise to get P&Z approval. The project proponents and their legal teams know all of the ratholes available to them to sneak around P&Z rules and regulations and get the project they want vs the one that was approved. They do that as their full time job. The community is always at a disadvantage and will always be taken advantage of. The only ways to stop the project creep is to deny the project at the outset and or tighten P&Z rules and regulation

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Frieda K. Wildey 

Hi Neighbors,

Several Eastport residents have crafted an online petition to present to the Annapolis Mayor and City Manager about the Lofts at Eastport Landing development, located at our local shopping center on Chesapeake Avenue. If you are still concerned about the Eastport Landing project, then please read and consider signing on to this petition – http://chng.it/9gt7BnZdwf .  The sooner the better, so we can also demonstrate to the City Board of Appeals before their Monday, 30 November hearing, that this project is still a big concern to community residents. 

Thank you very much. Best wishes to all for a Happy Thanksgiving.

Cheers,

Frieda K.and Jim Wildey

403 Chesapeake Avenue

Annapolis, MD 21403

Eastport Shopping Center Appeal–Comment

-Original Message—–
From: Bill Borwegen

Sent: Mon, Nov 23, 2020 2:49 pm
Subject: Re: Eastport Shopping Center Appeal

Glad to see folks asking about the shopping center. We all support reasonable development to replace this eyesore, but both the City and developer are taking us for CHUMPS. The developer is failing to comply with even the basic minimum legal requirements & the Buckley Administration is caving like a house of cards. If you think we need more traffic at the biggest bottleneck in Eastport with no new bike lanes, sidewalks or crosswalks, perhaps this is what the developer’s lawyer meant when he testified to the Board of Appeals hearing last week that ALMOST NONE OF US CARE about the need to mitigate the impacts of this project on our neighborhood’s environment. (By the way, Alderman Arnett presented impressive testimony under vehement objections by the developer concerning his right to speak and represent our interests.) If you disagree with the developer’s opinion of us, please send him and the City a message by signing the petition below: http://chng.it/9gt7BnZdwf

Eastport Shopping Center Appeal

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Hello all,
Petition is on Nextdoor.  I hope it won’t be taken down. You can read and sign it here: http://chng.it/9gt7BnZdwfIf you agree, please recirculate so we can hopefully get a good number of signatories to also share with the Board this week.  
Cheers,

Shelly

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