Legal Opinion
Metropolitan Baptist Church v. District of Columbia Department of Consumer & Regulatory Affairs
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided September 3, 1998No. 96-CV-1692PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STEADMAN, Associate Judge:
The District of Columbia Historic Preservation Review Board, after a public hearing in March 1994, established the Greater Fourteenth Street Historic District. That district included five rowhouses owned by appellant Metropolitan Baptist Church, although not the church’s house of worship itself. The church challenges this action.
In this appeal, we are asked to address essentially two issues: (1) did the Board abuse its authority in declining the church’s request to continue the public hearing to a future date (or at least to hold the record open for an additional…
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