Emmitsburg Municipal Government
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MDCC
receives conditional approval in Freedom
By Richard D. L. Fulton
News Editor
FREEDOM
TOWNSHIP, Pa. – The town board of supervisors unanimously
granted conditional approval to Mason-Dixon Country Club,
Inc.’s (MDCC) conditional use application.
MDCC
has proposed a halfbillion dollar, 867-acre “golf community”
of more than 1,160 homes interlaced with a golf complex spanning
Freedom Township and a portion of northern
Frederick County, Md. According to Freedom Township regulations,
golf communities are permitted in the affected zones only
as a conditionaluse.
The board of supervisors rendered its decision at a Dec. 21
meeting following the final conditional use hearing on Dec.
15.
Carroll "Duke" Martin, a project manager for Mason-Dixon
Country Club, Inc. told The Dispatch that attached to the
approval were 74 conditions, but that the holiday had prevented
the development staff from reviewing them in detail.
"We haven't had a chance to really go over them yet.
You don't go through 74 overnight ... but we don't believe
anything really raised eyebrows. We were happy to get through
the process although we have all those conditions set. I remain
optimistic,” he said.
The last of the special exception hearings was also held on
Dec. 19, concluding with public comment. The respective attorneys
were given until Jan. 31 to ?le briefs and until Feb. 10 to
obtain responses to those briefs.
The board then has 45 days to render a decision, making a
special exceptions request decision possible in March.
However, conditional use and the special exceptions do not
necessarily pave the way for preliminary plan presentations.
“We have to go back before zoning for another special
exception,” Martin said. The developers plan to request
an exception for a transmission main from the development’s
proposed Marsh Creek pumping station to the planned treatment
facility off Natural Dam Road.
Once all the necessary special conditions and conditional
use approvals are obtained, MDCC plans call for a six-phase
build-out, with completion slated tentatively for 2009. The
development would sit principally between Emmitsburg Road
and Bullfrog Road, with its northern boundary near the U.S.
15 interchange. A commercial section, including a hotel and
businesses, is proposed between U.S. 15 and Shorbs Mill Road.
MDCC, Inc. is owned by Caswell and Marie Holloway (Holloway
Development Corporation) of Philadelphia. The Holloways began
purchasing land for the project around 1988, and began work
on the development concept around 1998.
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