The Blake at Somerset Somerset S2 and Infrastructure
Monday Feb 3rd, 2025
PUBLIC NOTICE
The Blake at Somerset
Somerset S2 and Infrastructure
1211 & 1231 Jefferson Street and 409 Aisquith Street
Baltimore City, Maryland
Application for Redevelopment Waiver
The City of Baltimore Department of Public Works is accepting public review and comments on this project’s application for a redevelopment waiver. If granted, the project will still need to provide water qualitative controls, per the requirements of the State’s Design Manual.
| Applicant: | Somerset Jefferson LLC c/o Mission First Development Corporation, 1339 New Hampshire Avenue, NW, Suite 116, Washington DC 20036 |
| BCNR #: | 11188 |
| ESD #: | 7927A |
| Watershed(s): | Baltimore Harbor and Jones Falls |
| Project Description: |
The project has an approximate area of 6.41 acres and is located southeast and southwest at the intersection of Somerset and Jefferson Streets, and ESD #7927A for 520/525 Somerset Street and for the right-of-way and infrastructure improvements shown on Developer’s Agreements #1727 and #1728. The Blake at Somerset project will consist of two (2) surface parking lots and an eight (8) story building containing residential units, retail space, a grocer and parking levels.. The Applicant is requesting a redevelopment waiver in accordance with Article 7, §23-7 of the City Code. The existing impervious area coverage meets the conditions for this waiver. The project will provide micro-bioretention facilities and expansion of the underground SWM facility constructed under ESD #7927A with the Blake at Somerset project and 5 perimeter sand filters (PSF-1, PSF-3 through PSF-6) to satisfy the requirements of this waiver for 0.88 this project. The Applicant has demonstrated that on-site water quality control is not practicable. The Applicant will satisfy the water quality controls for this project by payment of fee-in-lieu of on-site stormwater management for 1.21 ac of this project. The applicant has already paid fee-in-lieu of on-site stormwater management for 1.12 ac of this project under ESD #7927A and therefore, the applicant will satisfy the water quality controls for this project by payment of fee-in-lieu of on-site stormwater management for remaining 0.09 ac of this project. To obtain information about this waiver request, please contact Michael Savage, Baltimore City Department of Public Works, Office of Research and Environmental Protection, Room 228, 3001 Druid Park Drive, Baltimore, MD 21215, (410-396-0732) or by e-mail to DPW.Plansreview@baltimorecity.gov. Send information or comments about this waiver request to Michael Savage, Baltimore City Department of Public Works, Office of Research and Environmental Protection, Room 228, 3001 Druid Park Drive, Baltimore, MD 21215, (410-396-0732) or by e-mail to DPW.Plansreview@baltimorecity.gov by 4:30 PM, February 14, 2025. Comments received after 4:30 PM, February 14, 2025, will not be considered. Any further notices about actions on this waiver request will be posted on the Department’s website. |