Maryland’s top court will consider whether local residents can challenge in court a county commission’s zoning decision that they allege was unlawfully reached based on the vote of a commissioner who had a personal stake in the outcome. The Court ...

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A drug treatment facility has turned to the courts in an effort to open its doors — over the objections of Baltimore officials who denied a critical permit.

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The Ferris wheel at a historic amusement park on the Ocean City boardwalk has reopened after a zoning violation.

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Trimper’s Rides in Ocean City has agreed to move a Ferris wheel that's overhanging the Boardwalk and violating the town’s zoning code.

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The company that owns a historic amusement park on the Ocean City boardwalk will be penalized for violating a zoning code if it doesn’t move its Ferris wheel, the town council decided.

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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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