Practices
- Administrative Law
- Appellate Law
- Banking & Finance
- Bankruptcy / Creditors' Rights
- Business
- Construction Contracts and Disputes
- Criminal Defense
- Employment Matters
- Environmental Law
- Estate Planning & Administration
- Family Law
- Insurance
- Litigation
- Maritime
- Municipal & Municipal Finance Law
- Personal Injury
- Real Estate
- Title Litigation
- Zoning & Land Use
Zoning & Land Use
Tireless and strategic.
Developers and land owners rely on our attorneys’ extensive knowledge of and experience in zoning and other land use and use issues in the City of Annapolis, Anne Arundel County and other selected jurisdictions.
Our Services
We assist our clients in obtaining:
- Subdivision approvals
- Zoning map amendments
- Variances
- Special exceptions
- Critical areas decisions, and
- Planned unit developments, among others.
Council Baradel’s attorneys provide a full range of services to developers, from the preparation of Public Offering Statements, subdivision documents, homeowners’ association documents, and condominium declarations and bylaws, through the recordation of condominium and subdivision plats. When representing developers, we work closely with engineers and other professionals to ensure that all legal requirements are met for the client.
Please send us an email and one of our attorneys will be in contact with you in a timely manner.
- In Memoriam: Council Baradel Co-Founder Wayne T. Kosmerl
- James P. Nolan Recognized by Community Foundation of Anne Arundel County
- Michael N. Russo, Jr. and Rebecca K. Schisler-Adams Win 3-Day Jury Trial on Contentious Real Property Dispute
- Four Council Baradel Attorneys Recognized by Best Lawyers 2025
- Rebecca K. Schisler-Adams Selected as 2024 Pro Bono Award Honoree
- Rebecca K. Schisler Adams Named Editor of Anne Arundel Bar Association Newsletter
- Thirteen Council Baradel Attorneys Recognized in What's Up? Magazine's "Leading Lawyers" 2024
- Wayne T. Kosmerl and N. Tucker Meneely Secure Victory for Clients in Supreme Court of Maryland
- James P. Nolan named to 2024 Business Law Power List by The Daily Record
- Council Baradel Elects Sally V. Baldwin and Brian S. Burkett as Partners
- Fifteen Council Baradel Attorneys Recognized by Maryland Super Lawyers 2024
- Council Baradel Welcomes Patrick S. Owen, Jr. as Litigation Associate
- Six Council Baradel Attorneys Recognized by Best Lawyers
- Thirteen Council Baradel Attorneys Recognized by Maryland Super Lawyers 2023
- Fifteen Council Baradel Attorneys Recognized by Maryland Super Lawyers 2022
- Twelve Council Baradel Attorneys Recognized in What's Up? Magazine's "Leading Lawyers" 2021
- Anne Arundel County Property Tax Assessment Appeals (2021, 2022, 2023 Tax Cycle)
- Council Baradel Elects Lee Ann Adams and Elizabeth A. Pfenson as Partners
- N. Tucker Meneely Inducted as Fellow of the Maryland Bar Foundation
- Council Baradel and Bay Title Company Operations Amid COVID-19
- Seventeen Council Baradel Attorneys Recognized by Maryland Super Lawyers 2020
- Council Baradel Named Top Workplace for Third Consecutive Year
- GDP and Land Use Change Application
- Ronald E. Council Marks 50 Years as an Annapolis Attorney
- Sixteen Council Baradel Attorneys Recognized in What's Up? Magazine's "Leading Lawyers" 2019
- Property Tax Reassessment Appeal Deadline Fast Approaching
- Joseph F. Devlin Attends Conservation Easement Seminar
- Mollie Walsh Beigel Joins Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts Board of Directors
- Property Tax Reassessment Appeal Deadline – Fast Approaching
- James P. Nolan to be Honored at Two Events this November
- Joseph F. Devlin and Michael N. Russo, Jr. to Participate in MSBA Real Property Section Breakfast
- Joseph F. Devlin Joins Board of Boys & Girls Clubs of Annapolis & Anne Arundel County
- Six Council Baradel Attorneys Named 2016 Maryland Super Lawyers.
- Ten Council Baradel attorneys named 2015 Maryland Super Lawyers.
- Directors Stephen A. Oberg, Susan M. Wyckoff and Joseph F. Devlin inducted as Fellows into the Maryland Bar Foundation
- Five Council Baradel Attorneys Named as"Leading Lawyers" by What's Up? Annapolis Magazine
- James P. Nolan elected to Board of the Community Foundation of Anne Arundel County effective January 1, 2014
- James P. Nolan appointed to the University of Baltimore Presidential Search Committee by William E. Kirwin, Chancellor of the University System of Maryland on November 14, 2013
- James P. Nolan Presented the 2013 Trustee's Award by the Anne Arundel Bar Association
- James P. Nolan Elected Vice Chair of the Board of the University of Baltimore Foundation and Board of Visitors
- Frederick C. Sussman and Suellen M. Ferguson Speak at MML Convention
- Susan T. Ford Elected Vice-Chairman of the Board of Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts
- Frederick C. Sussman Appointed City Attorney for Aberdeen
- James P. Nolan Receives Business Leader of the Year Award
- James P. Nolan to Head National Conference of Bar Presidents
- James P. Nolan Elected Secretary of the National Conference of Bar Presidents