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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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Read More »Ferris wheel to be moved from Ocean City Boardwalk
Ocean City orders move of Ferris wheel for zoning violation
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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Read More »Court approves actions by Prince George’s council in Walmart zoning case
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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Read More »Developer loses constitutional challenge to MoCo zoning change
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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Read More »End of the road for pavement lawsuit?
The Oregon Grille parking lot case is back!
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Read More »Md. top court: Development accords need not provide ‘enhanced benefits’
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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Read More »Md. court: Homeowners’ group lacks standing to challenge zoning
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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Read More »4th Circuit rejects bid to turn Rockville zoning spat into constitutional claim
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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Read More »Md. high court: Counties need not consider cultural aversion to a land use
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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Read More »Years in the making, ‘Transform Baltimore’ zoning overhaul approved
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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