Monthly Archives: March 2008

By Georgia Leonhart Lines were drawn between Dewey Beach residents and town commissioners when Commissioner Diane Hanson made a motion at the Saturday, March 8 town council meeting for a resolution to approve a referendum question to keep a 35-foot building height limit within the town. But even with a majority of the commissioners publicly [...]

DEWEY BEACH, Del. (AP)- The Dewey Beach Town Council has decided to get voters to weigh in on whether the town’s current 35-foot height limit on new construction should be in its charter. Concerns over Dewey Beach building heights came up last year after a 68-foot-tall luxury resort was proposed for the site of Ruddertowne, [...]

By Georgia Leonhart The Dewey Beach Planning & Zoning Commission spent nearly three hours discussing, creating, amending and refining town code definitions at a Saturday, March 1 meeting. “The challenge is to keep the definitions and zoning code simple while meeting the needs of everyone in Dewey,” said Vice Chairman David King who presided over [...]

Dewey Beach Town Council to Meet at 9 a.m. DEWEY BEACH ~ A proposal that failed to pass during a nearly seven-hour Dewey Beach Town Council meeting last summer is coming back before town officials for another try. The Dewey Beach Town Council will hold a public hearing and possibly vote on putting out to [...]