SERRA v. DEPT. OF ENVIRONMENT

No. 1519, Sept. Term, 1999.

758 A.2d 1057 (2000)

133 Md. App. 643

John SERRA v. MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF the ENVIRONMENT.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

September 5, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jonathan A. Hodgson (Hyatt, Peters & Weber, P.A., on the brief), Annapolis, for appellant.

Adam D. Snyder, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., on the brief), Baltimore, for appellee.

Argued before HOLLANDER, SALMON and KRAUSER, JJ.


SALMON, Judge.

Appellant, John Serra, challenges the authority of appellee, the Maryland Department of the Environment ("the MDE"), to regulate the construction of boathouses over State tidal wetlands.

In 1998, Serra applied to the MDE for a wetlands license to construct a boathouse to be attached to an existing pier. After the MDE denied the wetlands application, Serra appealed the denial. The Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County upheld the MDE's decision...

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