Baltimore City Council
File #: 09-0384    Version: 0 Name: Zoning - Dwelling Units - Defining "Family"
Type: Ordinance Status: Failed - End of Term
File created: 8/10/2009 In control: City Council
On agenda: Final action:
Enactment #:
Title: Zoning - Dwelling Units - Defining "Family" FOR the purpose of redefining an alternative element of what constitutes a "family" under the Zoning Code of Baltimore City; requiring for that purpose that persons unrelated by blood, marriage, or adoption and living together in a dwelling unit must be occupying the unit subject to a single lease, rental, or other occupancy arrangement applicable to the entire dwelling unit; and generally relating to the permitted and prohibited occupancy of dwelling units.
Sponsors: Mary Pat Clarke, Bill Henry, Sharon Green Middleton, Warren Branch, Robert Curran, Belinda Conaway, William H. Cole, IV, James B. Kraft
Indexes: Dwellings, Families, Zoning
Attachments: 1. 09-0384 - 1st Reader.pdf, 2. Planning - 09-0384.pdf, 3. BMZA - 09-0384.pdf
EXPLANATION: CAPITALS indicate matter added to existing law.
[Brackets] indicate matter deleted from existing law.

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CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL

Introduced by: Councilmember Clarke

A BILL ENTITLED

AN ORDINANCE concerning
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Zoning - Dwelling Units - Defining "Family"

FOR the purpose of redefining an alternative element of what constitutes a "family" under the Zoning Code of Baltimore City; requiring for that purpose that persons unrelated by blood, marriage, or adoption and living together in a dwelling unit must be occupying the unit subject to a single lease, rental, or other occupancy arrangement applicable to the entire dwelling unit; and generally relating to the permitted and prohibited occupancy of dwelling units.
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BY repealing and reordaining, with amendments
Article - Zoning
Section(s) 1-142(a)
Baltimore City Revised Code
(Edition 2000)

SECTION 1. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE, That the Laws of Baltimore City read as follows:

Baltimore City Revised Code

Article - Zoning

ยง 1142. Family.

(a) In general.

"Family" means one of the following, together with usual household helpers:

(1) an individual;

(2) 2 or more people related by blood, marriage, or adoption, living together IN A DWELLING UNIT as a single housekeeping unit [in a dwelling unit]; or

(3) a group of not more than 4 people, who need not be related by blood, marriage, or adoption, living together IN A DWELLING UNIT:



(I) as a single housekeeping unit [in a dwel...

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