Maryland Aviation Administration v. Newsome

DAVIS, Judge.

Appellant, Maryland Aviation Administration (MAA), appeals from a decision of the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County, reversing the Maryland Department of Transportation Board of Airport Zoning Appeals (Board or BAZA), which denied appellee, R. Wayne Newsome (Newsome), a variance to permit the construction of twenty-seven houses in the Lennox Park subdivision of Howard County, Maryland. The MAA opposed the granting of the variance on the basis that the proposed increase of twenty-seven residences and sixty-eight people would increase the population density within the Airport…