Harford County v. Edgewater Partnership

ADKINS, Judge.

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In April 1985, petitioner Hanson Partnership (Hanson) submitted to the Harford County Department of Planning and Zoning an application for approval of the location of a proposed integrated community shopping center. Throughout lengthy subsequent proceedings that application was ardently opposed by respondent, Edgewater Partnership (Edgewater), the owner of an existing shopping center not far from Hanson’s proposed location. On 14 April 1987 Hanson seemed to have achieved its goal; the Harford County Board of Appeals approved its request. 1 The Circuit Court for Harford County…