OC Today-Dispaatch OCTOBER 11, 2024
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Electric mandate shocks business A state law that pushes owners of large structures to reduce emissions and switch to all-electric will be financially devastating to businesses and gov’t. — PAGES 12, 14
Hi Tide will move into old Rite-Aid A boat, a house, a houseboat? PHOTO COURTESY CONNIE ALDERFER
RIDING HERD
Riding herd on concert-goers would be more like it, as members of the Ocean City Police Department’s mounted patrol rose above the crowd throughout the Country Calling music festival on the beach downtown Friday and Saturday.
The dispensary on Route The owners of a proposed houseboat rental unit are going to court to challenge Ocean 611 will gain a massive City government’s assertion that local zoning forbids rentals of that nature. Sea Rocket amount of space when it OC Houseboats LLC contends that city zoning doesn’t apply to the bay bottom and that moves into the empty pharits rental is a state-regulated vessel, not a structure. — PAGE 3 macy building.— PAGE 79
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Despite an August court order to remove it, a houseboat owned by Sea Rocket OC Houseboats LLC was moored this week in the Dorchester Street marina.
Company files lawsuit over city’s houseboat rental ban By Bethany Hooper Associate Editor (Oct. 11, 2024) The future of a short-term houseboat rental hangs in the balance as a lawsuit works its way through the court system. Earlier this summer, Sea Rocket OC Houseboats LLC filed a lawsuit challenging the validity of ordinances aimed at banning the operation of houseboat rentals within Ocean City’s municipal limits. As the case proceeds in Worcester County Circuit Court, the company has been ordered to move its houseboat from a Dorchester Street marina until the matter is resolved. In April, the Ocean City Council directed staff to develop recommendations for banning houseboat rentals after discovering listings for a short-term rental operation at the
Dorchester Street marina. While the town views houseboats as floating structures – which are prohibited by town code – representatives for the operator, Sea Rocket OC Houseboats LLC, argue they are vessels consistent with marina use. Despite objections from Sea Rocket’s manager, Will Wangel, and threats of litigation from the company’s attorney, Demetrios Kaouris, the council in June adopted an ordinance prohibiting the commercial use of houseboats within corporate limits, as well as a companion ordinance assigning fines for any violations. Days later, Sea Rocket Houseboats LLC filed suit in Worcester County Circuit Court seeking declaratory judgment and injunctive relief. See COURT Page 6
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