Independent local reporting from the Eastern Shore
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Draft Ordinance 2026-20, on the June 8 city council agenda for discussion, would halt new apartment, townhome, condominium, and duplex applications for six months while Daphne rewrites its land use rules. Projects already in the pipeline would be exempt.
The city's Code Enforcement and Ordinance Committee is scheduled to take up a multi-family residential development moratorium ordinance at its 4:30 p.m. meeting Monday at City Hall. The discussion comes as several major multi-family projects sit before the Planning Commission and the City Council, less than four years after Daphne's previous apartment moratorium expired.
The Daphne Planning Commission is scheduled to review the site plan for The Retreat at Daphne, a 17.96-acre multi-family apartment project northwest of County Road 13 and the Milton Jones Road Extension. The item is the apartment component of the larger 134.31-acre Rowan Oak Planned Unit Development that the Daphne City Council annexed and pre-zoned in June 2024.
