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<section article="glu" article_name="Land Use" number="7-506" title_number="7" title_name="Other Development Management Tools" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="Housing Expansion and Affordability">
  <level label="a">
    <text>Except as otherwise provided or required by State law, a local government may not require that a qualified project under this subtitle be reviewed at more than two public hearings before each of the following:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>the local governing body; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>the planning commission.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Except as otherwise provided or required by State law, a local government may not require that a qualified project under this subtitle be reviewed at more than one public hearing before each of the following:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>a historic district commission or historic preservation commission; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>the board of appeals.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
