METRO. BAP. CHURCH v. DEPARTMENT OF CONSUMER AND REGULATORY AFFAIRS

No. 96-CV-1692.

718 A.2d 119 (1998)

METROPOLITAN BAPTIST CHURCH, Appellant, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA DEPARTMENT OF CONSUMER AND REGULATORY AFFAIRS—HISTORIC PRESERVATION REVIEW BOARD and Logan Circle Community Association, Appellees.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided September 3, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Grace E. Speights, Washington, DC, for appellant.

Andrea C. Ferster, Washington, DC, for appellee Logan Circle Community Association.

Jo Anne Robinson, Principal Deputy Corporation Counsel, and Charles L. Reischel, Deputy Corporation Counsel, filed a statement in lieu of brief for appellee District of Columbia.

Before STEADMAN and SCHWELB, Associate Judges, and PRYOR, Senior Judge.


STEADMAN, Associate Judge:

The District of Columbia Historic Preservation Review Board, after a public hearing in March 1994, established the Greater Fourteenth Street Historic District. That district included five rowhouses owned by appellant Metropolitan Baptist Church, although not the church's house of worship itself. The church challenges this action.

In this appeal, we are asked to address essentially two issues: (1) did the Board abuse its authority...

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