Scrivner v. Mayor of Baltimore

This appeal presents the single question whether the appeal of DeLancey B. Scrivner (appellant) from the action of the Board of Municipal and Zoning Appeals in granting a permit to the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company, to make certain improvements to its building known as No, 8913 W, Coldspring Lane, Baltimore, Maryland, was taken within the time prescribed by law. The appeal was taken twenty-seven days after the resolution of the Board granting the permit was passed.

The zoning ordinance of Baltimore City, No. 1247, Paragraph 35(a) provides that an appeal from the Board may be taken…