Months before the ball drops at Times Square signaling the arrival of 2004, the year 2004 comprehensive zoning map process begins in Baltimore County. The year 2004 comprehensive rezoning actually commences September 2, 2003. All landowners - whether needing a zoning change for proposed new ...

As I sat listening to the chamber of commerce considering Baltimore County government’s proposal to legislate a reduction in outdoor lighting, I couldn’t ignore an historical irony: the debate was taking place on June 29, 2001, precisely 200 years to the day, from the birth ...

Ruling that Tampa’s zoning ordinance was misapplied when the U.S. District Court erroneously found that voyeurdorm.com offered adult entertainment to the public from a house in a residential zone, the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit reversed the decision. Voyeurdorm.com operates an ...

In its final decision of the 2000-2001 term, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5 to 4 that the case of an owner of 20 acres of Rhode Island waterfront property is ripe for judicial review. The decision in Palazzolo v. Rhode Island is a substantial ...

A recent federal statute severely limits zoning regulation that in any manner imposes a “substantial burden” on a house of worship or religious institution. The “Religious Land Use And Institutionalized Persons Act” shifts the burden of proof to local government when a land use regulation ...

“At a legislative session-day of the County Council, within three months after the publication of the decennial census figures of the United States Bureau of the Census … the County Council shall include as an item of legislative business at said session the revision of ...

A person can contribute no more than $4,000 to one Maryland campaign and a total of $10,000 to all Maryland campaigns during a four-year cycle. The current 2002 four-year cycle runs from January 1, 1999 through December 31, 2002. A contribution is money or anything ...

Baltimore County is advancing the first major overhaul of its historic preservation program since its original enactment in the bicentennial year by Bill 17-76. Based upon Baltimore City’s ordinance, that 1976 enactment quickly became recognized as a model not only for protecting museum quality buildings, ...