According to The Baltimore Sun, the lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court, alleged that the county violated the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act after an administrative law judge denied Ware’s petition to use a residential home as a church, and the county Board of Appeals declined to review Ware’s second, modified plan to do so.
The lawsuit indicated that Ware had still to apply for variances over setback and parking issues despite the zoning classification allowing the property to be a place of worship “by right.”
Neighbors in the Milford Mill area filed complaints to the county about cars parked on the grass when Ware held church services and a cookout for about 40 guests in 2012.