Page 6 The Dispatch/Maryland Coast Dispatch October 18, 2013 Two OCRedevelopment Projects Moving Forward Site plans for the new downtown Buccaneer’s Cave at Shipwreck Cove, left, and an unnamed project on 58th Street and Coastal Highway were approved by the Ocean City Planning and Zoning Commission this week. Rendering, left, by Iott Architecture and, right, by The Design Group By JOANNE SHRINER STAFF WRITER OCEAN CITY – A much smaller version of the proposed Buccaneer’s Caye at Shipwreck Cove to be built downtown was approved this week by the Planning and Zoning Commission, as well as new project being led by John Fager. A revised site plan for Buccaneer’s Caye at Shipwreck Cove returned to the Planning and Zoning Commission this week after the commission granted preliminary site plan approval a couple of weeks ago. The commission asked at that meeting for a second exit be placed on the property to enhance traffic circulation. The project will be located at 700 South Philadelphia Avenue where South Philadelphia Avenue meets South 1st Street between Sunset Park and the Oceanic Fishing Pier. At one time, Holt’s Landing restaurant stood on the property but was razed in the ’80’s. There have been several projects proposed to be developed at the location but nothing ever came of them. The project was first proposed as a 10,893-square-foot restaurant and tiki bar with two on-site employee housing units. It was a three-story building with an enclosed restaurant on the first floor and open tiki bar and assistant-managers quarters on the second floor and manager’s quarters on the third floor. 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, as well as large delivery and trash trucks entering and only being able to back up onto South Philadelphia Avenue with no option to circulate the property to exit. On Tuesday, Keith Iott, president of Iott Architecture & Engineering Inc., returned to the commission with an altered site plan. This time a second exit was added at the corner of South Philadelphia Avenue and South 1st Street. However, due to the loss of parking spaces to add the second exit, the housing units were eliminated from the plan. There is an existing pier that abuts the property. According to Iott, SEE NEXT PAGE