Medical Marijuana Entrepreneurs May Have to Wait for Zoning Laws to Catch Up

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 […]

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