The Agenda

The Bethany Beach Budget and Finance Committee will meet Friday, Jan. 27, at 2 p.m. in the town hall. The meeting is the first of the committee’s series of pre-budget meetings in preparation for drafting of the next fiscal year’s budget. The agenda includes:

• Discussion of ongoing work on the town’s schedules of fees and fines;

• Initial budget review and mark-up for the 2007 fiscal year; and

• Establishment of a subcommittee to review the schedules of fees and fines.

Fenwick Island

The Fenwick Island Town Council will meet on Friday, Jan. 27, at 3:30 p.m. at the town hall. The agenda for the meeting includes:

• A first reading for proposed floor area ratio controls on building in the town;

• Discussion of the planned Aquathlon event; and

• Formation of a committee for a town manager search.

Sussex County Planning & Zoning (P&Z)

The Sussex County Planning & Zoning Commission will meet on Wednesday, Feb. 1, at 3 p.m. in the County Council Chambers in Georgetown.

Ocean View

Ocean View’s Long-Range Financial Planning Committee will meet at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 31, at town hall.

Sussex County

Sussex County Council will meet at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 31, in Council Chambers at the Sussex County Administrative Office Building in Georgetown. On the agenda, a funding request from the University of Delaware’s Sea Grant program, for an “Our Town” land-use conference, recognition for contributors to this year’s Caroling on the Circle food drive, presentation of the Sussex County Association of Towns (SCAT) Public Service Award, a Wellhead Protection and Groundwater Resources contract, a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between Sussex County Council and the Delaware Department of Transportation (DelDOT) and contracts and grant applications related to the Dagsboro-Frankford Planning Area (wastewater treatment). Also on the agenda:

• The moratorium on new applications for cluster subdivisions is set to expire, whichever way council rules on an ordinance “to add a requirement that all AR-1 cluster developments be located within a development district.” The ordinance has changed somewhat since introduction and would as modified allow cluster development in the Agricultural-Residential (AR-1) district, but it would also impose a flat 25 percent reduction to the total acreage of a parcel before the developers calculate gross density.

• An ordinance that would close the existing C-1 Commercial district, and open a new CR-1 Commercial-Residential district, also appears on the agenda for discussion and possible introduction. Residential development would still be permitted by right in lands zoned C-1, but only via conditional use in the new CR-1.

• PGS Properties is back on the agenda, after a long hiatus — this is a request for change of zone on two adjacent parcels, at Old Mill Bridge Road and Route 54, from AR-1, to C-1 and High-Density Residential (HR-1), respectively. In all, the project encompasses a little more than 17 acres, and developers plan to build 119 residential units (seven units per acre). Council held public hearing in August of 2005.