United Parcel Service, Inc. v. People's Counsel

ELDRIDGE, Judge.

This case involves procedural issues relating to the exercise of jurisdiction by a county board of appeals.

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The controversy originated with United Parcel Service’s, and its subsidiary Verbal Corporation’s,1 desire to establish a parcel distribution facility in the Loveton Industrial Park at 14402 York Road, in Baltimore County. The Loveton Industrial Park has been zoned Manufacturing Light (ML) since 1973. UPS had targeted Loveton Industrial Park as an *572appropriate site for a distribution center as early as 1985, prior to acquiring the property.

In furtherance of its plans to…