He says approval will not be granted if the city does not have adequate water and sewer. Frederick, Md (KM) It may seem that residential development comes along very rapidly. But Frederick Mayor Michael O’Connor says it often takes years before the first house goes up. “One the challenges that you have in these processes that when people see new housing come out of the ground, they think that just happened,” he said. “But those projects have probably seven, ten–in some instances, the Summers Farm up the hill and down the street from this radio station–that project has been 15 years or longer in the visioning process,” he said.