1572                            LAWS OF MARYLAND                     [CH. 711

porary stands and structures; (4) the density and distribution of
population; (5) the location and uses of buildings and structures for
trade, industry, residence, recreation, agriculture, public activities
or other purposes; and (6) the uses of land for trade, industry, resi-
dence, recreation, agriculture, forestry, or other purposes, then the
county council or the county commissioners may each exercise the
powers granted it in Section 76 of this subheading.]

For the purposes of such exercise of power, each District Council
[the county council or county commissioners] may divide the por-
tion of the Regional District lying within its county into districts
[or] and zones of such number, shape or area as it may determine.
Within such districts and zones the District Council [county council
or county commissioners] may regulate the erection, construction,
reconstruction, alteration, and uses of buildings and structures and
the uses of land, including surface, subsurface, and air rights therein.
[or premises] Both districts and zones may be created; [A] all such
regulations shall be uniform for each class or kind of building
throughout any district or zone, but the regulations in one district
or zone may differ from those in any other district or zone.

[(b) Hearings. Before adopting and certifying its zoning plan,
the commission shall hold a public hearing thereon, notice of which
shall be published at least fifteen (15) days before the date of the
hearing in a newspaper or newspapers of general circulation in the
two counties. The notice shall contain the time and place of the
meeting and shall specify the place and times at which the proposed
text and maps may be examined.]

1(78) (70-89) (59-83) Amendments to zoning regulations; gen-
erally.

(a) Authorized; procedure. After duly advertised public hear-
ing [E] each District Council may from time to time amend its
regulations or any regulation, including the maps or any map, in
accordance with such procedures as may be established in the respec-
tive zoning ordinances. Such procedures and ordinances may in-
clude, but shall not be limited to: procedures limiting the times
during which amendments may be adopted; provisions for hearings
and preliminary determinations by an examiner, board or other
agency; procedures for quorums, number of votes required to enact
amendments and variations or increases therein based upon such
factors as master plans, recommendations of the hearing examiner,
planning board, municipality, or other body, and petitions of abut-
ting property owners, and the evidentiary value which may be ac-
corded to any or all of these; and procedures for hearing, notice,
costs, and fees, amendment of applications, stenographic records,
reverter, lapse, and reconsideration de novo of undeveloped zoning
amendments. The existing provisions of the Regional District Law
and of the ordinan