Jennings v. Board of Supervisors
Annotate this CaseAppellee John Jennings operates a commercial marina/boatyard. He challenged the local zoning board's authority to regulate the construction of additional mooring slips that would lie beyond the mean low-water mark of a navigable body of water on his property. Appellant also challenged the authority's "special exception permit" ordinance, claiming that the ordinance lacks adequate standards to guide the governing body's decision to grant or deny a permit. On review, the Supreme Court found no errors from the lower court's record on either ground: "the County's zoning authority 'embrace[s] the entirety of [Appellee's] proposed construction, even the portion that 'extends into the Chesapeake Bay's tidal tributaries.'" The Court affirmed the lower court's denial of Appellee's request for declaratory relief.
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