Badian v. Hickey

The principal question presented is whether the thirty-day period for appeal from a decision of the County Council of Montgomery County, sitting as the District Council for that part of Montgomery County within the Maryland-Washington Regional District on a zoning application, ran from the date when the Council at a public meeting announced its decision and the vote of its members or from the date of a subsequent meeting at which the transcribed minutes of the Council reciting the prior decision and the vote were approved by the Council. The judge below held, in dismissing the applicant’s…