The county must refund property owners as much as $22 million in impact fees because it failed to expand school and road capacity in some districts as required by law, an appeals court ruled last week.
In its Thursday opinion, the Court of Special Appeals sent the case back to the Anne Arundel County Circuit Court to gather more evidence and to compute the amount of damages owed to the plaintiffs.
At issue are impact fees the county collected from 1987 through 1996, but never used to expand schools and highways in the district where the parcels of land are located.
The 53-page Court of Special Appeals opinion,...
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