Mayor of Annapolis v. Annapolis Waterfront Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that the City could consider the environmental effects of a proposed pier extension to create additional boat slips
• noting that judicial review of administrative decisions is narrow be cause board members generally have expertise in the matter at hand and should be free to exercise their discretion
• holding a state statute granting a city, the authority to regulate the construction of wharves did not limit the factors the city could take into account in making those decisions
• defining substantial evidence as both “such evidence as a reasonable mind might accept as adequate to support a conclusion” and “whether a reasoning mind reasonably could have reached the factual conclusion the agency reached”(internal citations omitted)
• “ ‘[A] conflict exists only when a local law prohibits something permitted by the legislature, or permits something prohibited by the legislature.’ ”
• “Municipalities are free to provide for additional standards and safeguards in harmony with concurrent state legislation.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).