Day: November 14, 2023

  Drivers traveling on Interstate 380 likely have noticed the grading equipment moving dirt at a site east of the interstate and north of 120th St. NE near Swisher. Grading also has commenced to the west of the Swisher/Shueyville exit off I-380, between the interstate and Highway 965, and north of 120th Street NW. Developers are in the throes of prepping the land around the undeveloped interchange to make way for a new RV center and repair shop, a commercial self-storage business, and commercial buildings offering office, warehouse and shop…

A company’s proposal for 90 year-round portable micro-cabin campsites in a rural part of northwestern Frederick County was greenlighted by the Board of Supervisors last week. Getaway House Inc.’s conditional-use permit (CUP) request to allow the company to operate a micro-cabin campground on 430 acres close to the border with Berkeley County, West Virginia, was approved on a 6-1 vote. Chairman Charles DeHaven was the lone dissenter. The property, located at 427 McCubbin Road (Route 653) in the Gainesboro magisterial district, is in a heavily wooded area with steep slopes…