Page 22 The Dispatch/Maryland Coast Dispatch October 4, 2013 Restaurant Eyes Downtown Site By JOANNE SHRINER STAFF WRITER OCEAN CITY – A large project received approval this week to fill a long-vacant property in downtown Ocean City with a request to improve traffic circulation. Buccaneer’s Caye at Shipwreck Cove was proposed on Tuesday evening before the Planning and Zoning Commission as a 10,893square-foot restaurant and tiki bar with two on-site employee housing units. The project will be located between Sunset Park and the Oceanic Fishing Pier. It is a triangular piece of property that is currently vacant. However, the speed boat, Sea Rocket, operates out of this point and currently uses the property for patron parking and storage. The intention is once the new building goes up an agreement will be made where the Sea Rocket will continue to operate out of the location. At one time, Holt’s Landing restaurant stood on the property and there have been several projects proposed to be developed at the location but nothing ever came out of them. As proposed, the project is a three-story building with an enclosed restaurant on the first floor, an open tiki bar and assistant manager quarters on the second floor, and A rendering of the proposed development at the former site of Holt’s Landing years ago is pictured. A new plan with design changes will be submitted later this month. Rendering by Iott Architecture & Engineering Inc. Welcome to Ocean City e Welcom Golfers! Breakfa s Sandwic t hes All Day! 9403 Coastal Hwy., Ocean City, MD • 410-524-4400 CONVENIENT DRIVE-THRU OPEN 7 a.m. Open late Friday & Saturday till 11 p.m. BILLY’S SUBS DELIVERS • BILLY’S SUBS DELIVERS • BILLY’S SUBS DELIVERS Featuring Espresso Based Beverages - Hot and Iced. Café Mocha, Caramelatte. Caffe Latte. Cappuccino. Blended Beverages Frappalatte. Fruit smoothies. Specialty Teas. Cocoa Signature Sandwiches. Bakery Items. Visit our other store in Berlin 10231 Old Ocean City Blvd., Ste 103 410-629-1235 manager quarters on the third floor. The building will be placed on the back of the property. The parking lot would be in front of the building meeting the street front. The proposed site plan included only one exit/entrance point for traffic and parking was compliant with 63 parking spaces. The commission was concerned over the project only having one exit/entrance point. Members felt it would create havoc with cars coming in and out of the property into an already heavy traffic area downtown. “This place is going to create tax dollars and jobs and we have been waiting for a project like this on that property for a long, long time,” Commission member Peck Miller said. “What we don’t want to do is approve a project that is going to be there for at least the next 50 years that will create an even worse traffic problem then we already have downtown.” The commission voted unanimously to grant preliminary approval of the site plan based on the conditions it is altered to include a second exit/entrance point. On Thursday, Keith Iott, president of Iott Architecture & Engineering Inc., said the site plan will be returning to the commission on Oct. 15 with an alternative site plan that has two access points. Iott said the building may change in response to the conditions of approval and a three-story building may not be likely. As part of the altered site plan, a phased building plan will be introduced to the commission as well. The project may only have the first floor completed by this summer but that decision has not yet been made, Iott said. BILLY’S SUBS DELIVERS • BILLY’S SUBS DELIVERS BILLY’S SUBS DELIVERS • BILLY’S SUBS DELIVERS • BILLY’S SUBS DELIVERS Billy’s Pizzas & Sub Shops 78TH STREET (BAYSIDE) 410-524-2020 140TH STREET (OCEANSIDE) 410-250-1778 120TH STREET (FOOD LION MALL) 410-723-2500 RTE. 54 (2 MILES FROM BEACH) 302-436-5661 OPEN YEAR ROUND 11 A.M. EAT IN # CARRY OUT # FAST, FRIENDLY DELIVERY Coastal Drug Institutional Pharmacy 10231 Old Ocean City Blvd. Berlin, MD • 410-629-0089 (On The Campus of Atlantic General Hospital) Annual Flu Clinic Available Every Day 9 a.m.-4 p.m. in the pharmacy Free to seniors with standard Medicare. We bill all insurances. Cash price is $29.99. Our Remote Clinics: ✡❘✰✰✽’✷¤✑✷¤✗✫✫✪✶❘✲✬¤✠✔✔ ✘❘✾✾✦✷ ✍✶✳✱¤☛✦✶✶✽x✗✹✸❑¤✌✦✸x✑✲¤ ❙✳¤✍✦✷✸❑¤✍✶✪✪¤✪✰❘✺✪✶✽ ✘✑✥✥✠¤✕✠✖✑✠❀ HALF-PRICE! EVERY TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY, OPEN-CLOSE ANY PIZZA, ANY SIZE, ANY WAY ✑❙’✛¤✡✠☛ October 9 • Snow Hill Senior Center • 10 a.m.-Noon October 14 • The Parke In Ocean Pines • 9-11:30 a.m. BILLY’S SUBS DELIVERS • BILLY’S SUBS DELIVERS