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August 23, 2013
The Dispatch/Maryland Coast Dispatch
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. . Captain: New Downtown Home Needed
FROM PAGE 6 of the existing buildings revealed significant issues, such as numerous ADA violations, nonfunctioning sprinkler systems, asbestos siding, cracks in exterior masonry walls, and all the buildings’ first floors are below the FEMA Base Flood Elevation. Last Friday, OCBP Captain Butch Arbin gave The Dispatch a tour of the patrol’s operation on Dorchester Street. He explained the current location has been designated as a temporary location and will be used at some time in the future for downtown redevelopment, but the beach patrol has never had a facility designed and constructed for its exclusive use. “We have always been moved into an existing facility and needed to make it meet our needs,” he said. Headquarters currently occupies three buildings on Dorchester Street between Baltimore and Philadelphia avenues, which used to serve as the old Ocean City Police Department (OCPD) and District Court facilities. In 1993, the buildings were deemed unsuitable for the OCPD and District Court and the city vacated the property, moving into the new Public Safety Building on 65th Street. At that time, the OCBP was stationed on the Boardwalk. Without notice to the beach patrol, Public Works was directed to pack up the OCBP and move the department to the old OCPD and District Court
buildings once they became vacant. The beach patrol’s former headquarters on the Boardwalk was demolished and rebuilt to become what is currently a new police substation. Arbin furthered the town has been buying properties throughout the block where headquarters now stands with the hopes of eventually owning all properties and selling the land as a model block to the public sector. The concept has been a longterm goal for years and former Councilman Joe Hall made a motion two years ago to tear down the patrol’s headquarters a week before the summer season started to turn the space into a large parking lot without anywhere for the beach patrol to relocate. The motion failed. “They have talked about building an aquarium, a parking garage, even an IMAX Theater … but that hasn’t happened,” Arbin said. Walking though the buildings, water damage is prevalent with holes and water stains from the ceilings to the floor and the smell of mold hovering throughout the air. “The biggest problem is the constant water damage. Not just rising water but because the buildings are so old rain water saturates through the buildings leading to the mold problem. I don’t want them to condemn the building because we still have no place to go,” Arbin said. The current configuration is not SEE PAGE 38
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