ZONING AND PLANNING 2635

The uniformity required by this section does not preclude legislative body from
reserving power to legislate separately with respect to permits for filling stations in
areas not prohibited by zoning ordinance. Kramer v. Baltimore, 166 Md. 327.

See secs. 10-37.

1927, ch. 706, sec. 2.

2. (Districts.) For any or all of said purposes the local legislative body
may divide the municipality into districts of such number, shape, and
area as may be deemed best suited to carry out the purpose of this Article;
and within such districts it may regulate and restrict the erection, con-
struction, reconstruction, alteration, repair, or use of buildings, structures,
or land. All such regulations shall be uniform for each class or kind of
buildings throughout each district, but the regulations in one district may
differ from those in other districts.

1927, ch. 705, sec. 3.

3. (Purposes.) Such regulations shall be made in accordance with a
comprehensive plan and designed to lessen congestion in the streets; to
secure safety from fire, panic, and other dangers; to promote health and
the general welfare; to provide adequate light and air; to prevent the
overcrowding of land; to avoid undue concentration of population; to
facilitate the adequate provision of transportation, water, sewerage, schools,
parks, and other public requirements. Such regulations shall be made
with reasonable consideration, among other things, to the character of the
district and its peculiar suitability for particular uses, and with a view
to conserving the value of buildings and encouraging the most appropriate
use of land throughout such municipality.

1927, ch. 705, sec. 4. 1937, ch. 397.

4. (Method of Procedure.) The legislative body of such municipality
shall provide for the manner in which such regulations and restrictions
and the boundaries of such districts shall be determined, established, and
enforced, and from time to time amended, supplemented, or changed. How-
ever, no such regulation, restriction, or boundary shall become effective
until after a public hearing in relation thereto, at which parties in interest
and citizens shall have an opportunity to be heard. At least 15 days' notice
of the time and place of such hearing shall be published in an official paper,
or a paper of general circulation, in such municipality and, in case of the
change in boundary or boundaries of any zoning district, a similar notice
shall be posted such place or places as the respective zoning authorities
shall designate within the zone proposed to be changed.

1927, ch. 705, sec. 5.

5. (Changes.) Such regulations, restrictions and boundaries may from
time to time be amended, supplemented, changed, modified, or repealed.
In case, however, of a protest against such change, signed by the owners
of 20 per cent or more either of the area of the lots included in such pro-
posed change, or of those immediately adjacent in the rear thereof extend-
ing 100 feet therefrom, or of those directly opposite thereto extending 100
feet from the street frontage of such opposite lots, such amendment shall
not become effective except by the favorable vote of three-fourths of all
the members of the legislative body of such municipality. The provisions