3758

LAWS OF MARYLAND

[Ch. 892

the entire Maryland—Washington Regional District. The
adoption of an ordinance or resolution by the bi-county
district council shall be accomplished only by the
affirmative votes of a majority of the total membership
of each district council.

(b) Each district council [is], respectively
[empowered], in accordance with the conditions and
procedures specified in this article, [to] MAY regulate,
by ordinance, in the portion of the regional district
lying within its county, (1) the location, height, bulk,
and size of buildings, other structures, and units
therein, building lines, minimum frontages, depths and
areas of lots, and percentages of lots which may be
occupied; (2) the size of lots, yards, courts, and other
open spaces; (3) the erection of temporary stands and
structures; (4) the density and distribution of
population; (5) the location and uses of buildings and
structures and units therein for trade, industry,
residence, recreation, agriculture, public activities,
and other purposes; and (6) the uses of land, including
surface, subsurface, and air rights therein, for
building, trade, industry, residence, recreation,
agriculture, forestry, or other purposes. No regulation
[shall] MAY prohibit the use of any land by the owner of
such land or the holder of any easement or right therein
or his tenant for farming, other agricultural uses
exclusively or, within Prince George's County for the
purposes of storing natural or artificial gas at a level
below [five hundred] 500 feet from the surface of the
earth. The county council for Montgomery County, sitting
as a district council, [shall] MAY not receive an
application for a zoning map amendment upon the same land
which has been the subject of a previous zoning
application for map amendment filed after June 1, 1965,
for the same zoning classification upon which there was a
decision on the merits unless [thirty—six] 36 months have
expired since the filing of the application for the
previous zoning map amendment upon which there was a
decision on the merits[; and be it further provided,
that]. FURTHER, an application for a zoning map
amendment filed with the county council for Montgomery
County, sitting as a district council, shall set forth
the names of all persons having a substantial interest in
the subject property of the application, such substantial
interest to include all those persons with a share in
such property amounting to five percent or more whether
held in an individual or corporate capacity of the full
cash value of such property exclusive of all mortgages,
deeds of trust, liens and encumbrances[;, and]. IT shall
also set forth the names of all contract purchasers and
all those persons holding a mortgage, a deed of trust, or
an option to purchase [such] THE property[; provided,
however, that]. HOWEVER, the aforegoing time limitation