Bryniarski v. Montgomery County Board of Appeals

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• holding that landowners whose properties were “contiguous or close in proximity” to a proposed hotel had standing to challenge in court the grant of a special exception
• holding as prima facie aggrieved protestants described as “owners of property immediately contiguous or in close proximity of the proposed site for the apartment hotel”
• noting that, “the opportunity of denial and rebuttal is not a substitute for cross-examination” unless the administrative body is acting in a legislative rather than a judicial capacity
• asserting that only an allegation of aggrievement is necessary; “[i]t is sufficient if the facts constituting aggrievement appear in the petition for appeal either by express allegation or by necessary implication”
• analyzing the definition of a “person aggrieved” under the then-current zoning law, Md.Code (1957, 1965 Cum.Supp.
• granting landowners adjoining landowner standing to challenge a special exception granted by the Montgomery County Board of Appeals

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