Court Opinion

ID: 9732982
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 16:48:17.651906+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:26:36.852515
License: Public Domain

KERN, Associate Judge
(concurring):
I am constrained by this court’s decision in Chevy Chase Citizens Ass’n v. District of Columbia Council, D.C.App., 327 A.2d 310 (1974), to agree with the majority. There, a majority of the court (at 314) construed the statutory phrase “after a hearing” contained in the District of Columbia APA definition of “contested case” to mean “after a trial-type hearing”. In my view the “public hearing” which the Zoning Commission is required by Section 5-415 to hold before putting into effect the amendment of the zoning regulations concerning halfway houses in this case cannot be deemed a trial-type hearing. Hence we do not have a contested case before us, and in the absence of a showing of any other basis for jurisdiction in this court, I agree that the appeal must be dismissed.