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Friday, January 18, 2013

Rockfish Secures Approval for Rooftop Dining

The Eastport restaurant received a special exception permit to build a rooftop deck for that will seat up to 54 people.

Diners at the The Rockfish Restaurant in Eastport could be enjoying their meals outdoors by Spring 2013 thanks to a ruling by Annapolis' Board of Appeals. The board unanimously approved a special exception permit to build a rooftop deck that will seat up to 54 people. The restaurant at 400 Sixth St. will become the first one to this type of outdoor dining in the convenience shopping and community shopping districts. City Council amended the zoning laws to allow for rooftop dining in May 2011. "There really is a lack of outdoor dining for the city which is so oriented," board member James Gregory said. "I think this is a good way to put this ordinance in place." Rooftop dining was always part of Rockfish's business plan. Daniel Ball, a …

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Rockfish Petitions For Eastport's First Rooftop Dining Permit

Restaurant is first to take advantage of Annapolis' new law allowing rooftop dining in the convenience shopping and community shopping districts.

An Eastport restaurant is hoping to be the first business granted permission to build a rooftop dining deck since the Annapolis City Council passed a law allowing their construction. The Rockfish Restaurant, at 400 Sixth St., is asking the Board of Appeals to grant them a special exception for a deck that would seat up to 54 people. "It was always our hope or aspiration to have roof top dining. Our customers have repeatedly asked ‘are we going to be able to eat outside?’” Rockfish's managing partner Gregory Casten said.  Rooftop dining was always part of Rockfish's business plan, said Daniel Ball, a Columbia-based architect who designed Rockfish in 2004. He included an outdoor dining area when he submitted his original designs to the city…

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7:56 pm on Friday, December 7, 2012

The Rockfish may be an improvement over what was there on that corner, but it is still a blight on the neighbornood. I am pretty sure that the owners of Rockfish are not tolerating residual hangers on loitering on their decrepit parking lot drinking beer. Consider instead that there is side door to Rockfish that has an unlikely number of beer bottles around it all the time. I'd call that the …   more ›

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