Twenty inspections done from September 2012 to January 2014
From The Gazette, reporter Jenn Davis
A developer that owns a pond where a 10-year-old recently drowned has
been in compliance with regulations on required safety fencing,
according to city of Gaithersburg records obtained by The Gazette.
The pond, off Diamondback Drive, is in the Crown development’s Neighborhood One, which is owned by Westbrook Acquisitions LLC.
None of the 20 previous inspections of the sediment and grading in
the Crown neighborhood — from Sept. 20, 2012, to Jan. 7, 2014 — show a
violation for a safety fence around pond 1, the site of the drowning,
according to John Schlichting, Gaithersburg’s director of planning and
code administration.
Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service officials have said that
when D’Angelo Jayvon McMullen of Rockville fell through the ice on the
pond on Jan. 13 and died, there was only partial fencing.
and:
Schlicting said that since no violations pertaining to the safety
fence were recorded in any of the inspections, it is assumed that city
inspectors found the fence to be present and up to city code
requirements during each of their visits.
Even though the forms show places where inspectors can indicate
specific findings about safety fencing, those sections are blank on the
records obtained by The Gazette.
In response to requests by The Gazette about when the fencing was
inspected, the city provided records that do not clearly show what
passed inspection and when.
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Why is "Westbrook Acquisitions LLC" not listed with the Maryland Department of Assessments and Taxation at http://sdatcert3.resiusa.org/UCC-Charter/CharterSearch_f.aspx Even though it may be a NY corporation, in order to legally do business in Maryland, they must be registered (even if only as a "foreign corporation").
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