City of Baltimore - File #: 11-0767

• File #: 11-0767
• Version: 0
• Name: Board of Municipal and Zoning Appeals - Public Hearings
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Enacted
• File created: 8/15/2011
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 12/5/2011
• Enactment #: 11-574
• Title: Board of Municipal and Zoning Appeals - Public Hearings FOR the purpose of requiring the minutes of the Board of Municipal and Zoning Appeals to include, on each question, the Board’s findings of fact and its decision; requiring notice of public hearings by the Board to be posted on the subject property; requiring the Board to decide a matter within 30 days of the hearing; requiring the Board to schedule certain public hearings to start after a certain time; requiring all voting sessions to be open to the public; precluding Board members from participating at a hearing unless they are physically present; precluding Board members from voting on a matter unless they were physically present at the hearing on the matter and are physically present at the voting session; and generally relating to hearings by the Board of Municipal and Zoning Appeals.
• Sponsors: James B. Kraft, Carl Stokes, Mary Pat Clarke, Nicholas C. D'Adamo, William H. Cole, IV, President Young, Sharon Green Middleton, Belinda Conaway, Helen L. Holton, William "Pete" Welch, Rochelle Spector, Warren Branch
• Indexes: Board of Municipal and Zoning Appeals (BMZA), Hearings, Public Hearings

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
12/5/2011	0	City Council	Advanced to 3rd Reader on same day
12/5/2011	0	City Council	Approved and Sent to the Mayor
12/5/2011	0	Mayor	Signed by Mayor
11/15/2011	0	Judiciary and Legislative Investigations	Advertising
11/14/2011	0	Judiciary and Legislative Investigations	Scheduled for a Public Hearing
10/17/2011	0	Judiciary and Legislative Investigations	Scheduled for a Public Hearing
8/18/2011	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
8/18/2011	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
8/18/2011	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
8/15/2011	0	City Council	Introduced
8/15/2011	0	City Council	Assigned

EXPLANATION: CAPITALS indicate matter added to existing law.
[Brackets] indicate matter deleted from existing law.

* WARNING: THIS IS AN UNOFFICIAL, INTRODUCTORY COPY OF THE BILL.
THE OFFICIAL COPY CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IS THE FIRST READER COPY.
INTRODUCTORY*

CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL

Introduced by: Councilmember Kraft

A BILL ENTITLED

AN ORDINANCE concerning
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Board of Municipal and Zoning Appeals - Public Hearings

FOR the purpose of requiring the minutes of the Board of Municipal and Zoning Appeals to include, on each question, the Board’s findings of fact and its decision; requiring notice of public hearings by the Board to be posted on the subject property; requiring the Board to decide a matter within 30 days of the hearing; requiring the Board to schedule certain public hearings to start after a certain time; requiring all voting sessions to be open to the public; precluding Board members from participating at a hearing unless they are physically present; precluding Board members from voting on a matter unless they were physically present at the hearing on the matter and are physically present at the voting session; and generally relating to hearings by the Board of Municipal and Zoning Appeals.
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BY repealing and reordaining, with amendments
Article - Zoning
Section(s) 2-113(b), 2-114(a) and (d), and 2-115
Baltimore City Revised Code
(Edition 2000)

BY adding
Article - Zoning
Section(s) 2-114(e)
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 – Z...