City, Developer Wrangle Over Quiet Waters Development
After months of negotiations the developers for the Reserve at Quiets Waters and the city are still arguing over construction details.
City officials and builders of a proposed development adjacent to Quiet Waters Park spent most of their four-hour Board of Appeals hearing talking about trees—specifically those in the southwest corner of the 39-acre property adjacent to the county-owned park. Annapolis' Planning Commission approved a site plan for the Reserve at Quiet Waters, which includes 160 residential units, in September 2011. It did so after hours of heated debate, and only after it placed a near record 48 conditions on the project. The developers, QW Properties and Chesapeake Realty Partners, testified to the Board of Appeals that they have agreed to potential compromises on all but one of those conditions. The planning commission placed a requirement on the …
