Baltimore County v. Wesley Chapel Bluemount Ass'n

HOLLANDER, Judge.

This appeal requires us to interpret provisions of the Open Meetings Act (“the Act”), codified at Maryland Code, §§ 10-501 to 10-512 of the State Government Article (1984, 1995 Repl.Vol.) (“S.G.”). Pursuant to S.G. § 10—503(b)(2), the Act is applicable to a public body when it meets to consider “a special exception, variance, conditional use, zoning classification, the enforcement of any zoning law or regulation, or any other zoning matter.” (Emphasis added). The question here is whether a county board of appeals’s consideration of a subdivision and development plan…