T & R Joint Venture v. Office of Planning & Zoning of Anne Arundel County

This is a zoning case, but the issue before us is solely one of "standing” — whether the Anne Arundel County Office of Planning and Zoning (OPZ) had the right to appeal a decision of the Zoning Hearing Officer to the County Board of Appeals and thence to the circuit court. The Board, applying the law then in effect, concluded that it did not, and thus dismissed OPZ’s appeal to it. The court, by applying a new ordinance, enacted during the pendency of the subsequent judicial appeal, concluded that OPZ did have the requisite standing, both before the Board and before it. The theretofore…