Baltimore County recently became the first jurisdiction in Maryland to enact comprehensive zoning rules for medical marijuana facilities. Under zoning laws, uses are generally permitted rather than prohibited. That is to say, a business owners may only engage in uses that are specifically permitted in a given zone and a use that is not permitted is, for […]
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Planning a Brewery? Think Zoning Zoning Zoning
Have you ever wondered why Annapolis, our state’s fair capital city, does not have any craft breweries? After all, Frederick and Baltimore are home to multiple world class craft beer producers. Well, the answer is both simple and amazing: the zoning codes of the City of Annapolis and Anne Arundel County do not include brewing […]
Read more...UPDATE: SHA Opts Not to Appeal Pre-Condemnation Ruling from Montgomery County
This is to provide an update on this story from earlier this year, where we successfully defended a property owner’s right to deny the State Highway Administration’s efforts to gain access to his property for environmental testing, and actually had the statute in question declared unconstitutional. As matters turned out, the State Highway Administration did not appeal this […]
Read more...Montgomery County Judge Declares Key Maryland Eminent Domain Statute Unconstitutional
On Monday, July 14, a judge of the Montgomery County Circuit Court declared unconstitutional a long-standing law that permits the Maryland State Highway Administration (SHA) to obtain a court order allowing it to enter private property, without the landowner’s consent, and conduct intrusive drilling, soil sampling, and subsurface engineering studies. The law has been on […]
Read more...Maryland Announces Plans to Take Private Property for Purple Line
The Maryland Transit Administration has recently begun informing property owners and businesses along the route of the proposed Purple Line that they might have to make plans to move. That is because the state will begin purchasing property along the proposed route as soon as September 2013. For those property owners who will not agree […]
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