Franchot Pushes CRHS permit

ANNAPOLIS Comptroller Peter Franchot requested that the Maryland Department of the Environment grant an immediate waiver for a permit holding up a $27 million renovation to Colonel Richardson High School at Wednesday's Maryland Board of Public Works meeting in Annapolis.

While it should only take a matter of days to secure a state stormwater discharge permit, the state has reverted to an older process that takes months as it waits for a legal challenge over its procedures from the Waterkeeper Alliance to be resolved. Any project affecting one acre or more of land must go through the rigorous individual permitting process, which can take as long as five months.

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