With the appellate court affirming a Worcester County Circuit Court ruling, opponents of the site plan approval for a 230-room oceanfront hotel are now evaluating their options.
In November, the Appellate Court of Maryland issued its opinion in a case involving the site plan for a proposed Ocean City hotel, formerly known as the Margaritaville project.
With appellate judges upholding the lower court’s decision to dismiss the legal challenge, Harrison Hall Hotel and several surrounding property owners are faced with two options – adhere to the court’s ruling and file an appeal with the Ocean City Board of Zoning Appeals, or petition the Supreme Court of Maryland to review their case.
“Our view with regards to the law regarding administrative exhaustion is that it is a creature of statute …,” Grant Amadeus Giel, attorney for the appellants, said in an interview last week. “It must be written explicitly in the ordinance. In Ocean City’s case, that isn’t the case.”
The harrison’s think they own Ocean City. Ha Ha Ha