As construction begins at The Village at Providence Point—ANational Lutheran Community, National Lutheran Communities & Services (NLCS) has taken an important step to ensure the project meets the highest environmental requirements and fully complies with the City of Annapolis’ approval conditions.

NLCS has appointed Daniel J. O’Leary, P.E., a senior civil and water resources engineer with 41 years of experience in environmental compliance, stormwater management, sediment control and site development as the project’s independent environmental monitor. In this role, O’Leary, with MK Consulting Engineers in Baltimore, will provide third-party oversight throughout construction, ensuring that all environmental commitments made during the City’s lengthy review and approval process are followed consistently.

NLCS and the Annapolis-based environmental consortium Concerned Citizens for Proper Land Use agreed to the appointment and cost-sharing for O'Leary, who also serves as president of the prestigious Engineering Society of Baltimore.  

He will provide independent third-party oversight, with regular site visits during the estimated 28 months of construction on the 52-acre site. He will work with the Providence Point construction team ensuring compliance with all State and City environmental laws and regulations and the numerous environmental conditions set by the City during its lengthy review and approval process. Through regular reports to NLCS and the consortium, he will focus on stormwater and sediment control as well as forest conservation and prioritize the protection of water quality.

O’Leary previously advised the consortium and consulted with NLCS engineers to ensure this remarkable outcome: the stormwater leaving the development from a 25-year storm event will be as clean or cleaner than current conditions and will be as good as if the entire development site were a mature forest in good condition. This far exceeds all requirements of state and locallaws and regulations.

Providence Point is being touted as a model for sustainable development. It will incorporate features such as 79-bio retention areas to capture stormwater at its source, green roofs, porous driveway surfaces at most cottage homes, most parking placed underground, and remediation of 502 feet of a degraded stream channel running from Spa Road opposite Annapolis Middle School to Crab Creek.

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