The Court of Appeals held Tuesday that a Prince George’s County zoning authority was permitted to delegate preparation of a draft order to its staff attorney and properly exercised original jurisdiction in an exception and variance case. The decision will ...

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Montgomery County did not violate a developer’s constitutional rights by adopting a water system amendment to a master zoning plan, changes that devalued the planned development, a federal appeals court ruled last week. In its reported 3-0 decision, the 4th ...

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The Oregon Grille parking lot case is back!

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In a victory for developers over environmentalists, Maryland’s top court has unanimously held that county-approved property-development agreements need not contain provisions ensuring enhanced benefits for the community, such as new schools or better roads. Nothing in Maryland law or in ...

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Umbrella organizations of homeowners’ associations generally lack standing to challenge zoning decisions because they lack individual resident members who would be harmed by the rezoning, Maryland’s second-highest court said last week in rejecting a group’s bid to oppose redevelopment in ...

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Saying a zoning dispute does not create a constitutional crisis, a federal appeals court ruled Friday the Rockville City Council did not violate a self-storage company’s due-process and equal-protection rights by enacting an ordinance barring the construction of a facility ...

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Cultural aversion provides no independent basis for a county planning board to reject a proposed use for land — unless stated otherwise in the local zoning regulations — Maryland’s top court has held in upholding the construction of a Clarksville ...

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One of the final acts of the term for the outgoing Baltimore City Council was to approve a zoning code revision roughly a decade in the making. The council Monday night gave its final approval to the zoning code overhaul, dubbed ...

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A Silver Spring church has filed suit against Montgomery County, alleging the government has imposed targeted land-use regulations to prevent at least two congregations from purchasing land for new facilities. Canaan Christian Church has unsuccessfully tried to relocate to the ...

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Hurdles preventing the development of affordable housing highlighted in a recent report by the White House are prevalent in the Baltimore metro area, according to some development advocates. Sean Davis, president of the Baltimore chapter of the Maryland Building Industry ...

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