Cloverly Hill, LLC

02/01/2025

Please help bring thirty-five to forty new jobs to the Town of Smithsburg.

On February 18th, tell the Town Council to fix Smithsburg’s antiquated ordinances. Be it from neglect or a choice of inaction, the rules governing economic development and job creation in the Town are hopelessly out of date. And from this stems the current, and forecast to get worse, fiscal difficulties for the Town.

A member of the Smithsburg Town Council recently chose to ridiculously stir the pot, to scream like “Chicken Little” that a Buc-ees super-size convenience store and truck stop gas station was coming to ruin Smithsburg. It’s not, and he knew it. But as an elected official holding the public trust, that Council Member apparently prefers to tear the town apart and be an obstructionist rather than to help create economic opportunities and provide for responsible, planned, growth.

Of specific instance now is that the existing AC&T Convenience Store and Gas Station at the corner of Maryland 66 and Maryland 64, located in Washington County, could not be built and operated within the geographic boundaries of the municipality of Smithsburg today. All recognized brand name operators of C-Stores, be they Sheets, Royal Farms, Circle K, etc., are food service hospitality providers first, and petroleum suppliers second. But not so in the Town of Smithsburg, under the Town rules adopted in 2001, twenty-four years ago.

The hopelessly out of date Smithsburg Town Zoning Ordinance definition of a Convenience Store limits it to the sale of “prepackaged or pre-processed food products” in a store of 5,000 square feet or less. So, no freshly made hot (or cold) food can be sold at a C-store in the Town of Smithsburg. No hot coffee, no soda fountain. And the AC&T, which is 7,400 square feet in size, is too big to go in the Town under today’s rules. By not updating the Town ordinances to match up with modern society, with “convenience”, the Town Council is saying “please come on in, get your frozen pre-packaged burrito made six months ago, and put in the microwave.” By not updating a twenty-four-year-old antiquated ordinance, they are preventing job creation. By not updating the Town Ordinances, they are, as a four-person Town Council, picking and choosing which businesses win and which businesses lose in a regional capitalist economy.

A new, modern convenience store inside the Town corporate boundary will serve fresh hot and cold food made on demand, provide hot coffee and soda drinks. It will sell household items – low & behold you will be able to buy a loaf of bread and quick grocery items inside the Town again! And it will have fewer gas pumps than the AC&T, not a super-sized station. It will be located on Town General Commercial Zoned ground, at a signalized intersection of two State Highways, where the other three corners are County zoned Business Local. It will create jobs in the Town of Smithsburg, as part of planned growth in accordance with the Town’s Comprehensive Plan for over twenty years.

Please ask your elected representatives on the Smithsburg Town Council to update their ordinance at the February 18th meeting.

02/01/2025

We are almost ready to break ground at Cloverly, a new inter-generational community in Smithsburg, Maryland. Phase One will feature single family homes and townhomes surrounded by nature trails, exercise stations, playgrounds and a dog park. Later phases will provide our Senior Independent Living apartments joined to a hospitality clubhouse/restaurant with indoor and outdoor seating and an adjacent assisted living & memory care facility.

08/28/2018

Cloverly comments about Smithsburg Waste Water Treatment Plant Upgrade Project.

04/11/2018

We now look forward to creating a wonderful new neighborhood in Smithsburg. Thanks for the support. Onward!!

04/06/2018

03/31/2018

03/28/2018

Please see the message from the Town of Smithsburg. If you, or your friends and acquaintances, happened to have signed the Petition for Referendum last month and you or they now have their doubts, here is a new chance. Cloverly will be built, in either the Town as annexed, or in the County. Better to have LOCAL control and review. Our plan has less density in the Town than if we are returned to the County. Thanks.

03/18/2018

Some of our neighbors do understand...

03/11/2018

Those who oppose the creation of Cloverly as a new mixed use inter-generational community in Smithsburg, MD, often say their primary reason for objection is the general commercial zoned ground granted by the Town as part of the Annexation. They fear a Walmart or some other intensive retail development, despite our publicly stated plans of a senior living facility, a day care and learning center, a new home for Smithsburg Emergency Medical Services (SEMS), and a neighborhood community center. We say to them: please read the tea leaves... no one is building new retail... see the below article: economics still matter... we intend a community of new homes for kids, families and seniors... please VOTE YES for the annexation of Cloverly.

Overbuilt malls, corporate mergers, and autonomous vehicles are converging.

03/06/2018

Please attend the Town of Smithsburg Town Council meeting tonight, Tuesday 06 March 2018 at 7:00pm at Town Hall. As part of the silent majority that favors economic growth, job creation and local control by the creation of Cloverly, as a mixed-use inter-generational community IN the Town of Smithsburg, please come make your voice heard by the Mayor and Council.

02/22/2018

This is what we are trying to accomplish at Cloverly, a proposed mixed use inter-generational community in Smithsburg, Maryland. We intend to include a learning center with child day care combined with senior independent and senior assisted living, intermingled with single family homes and townhomes.