The backyard go-kart track Charles “Chris” Siperko built for his son lives to see another day for now.

At the end of a six-hour hearing Thursday, the Howard County Board of Appeals voted 4-0 to reverse the Hearing Examiner’s Order from March , which had dismissed Siperko’s petition for conditional use because of lack of jurisdiction to hear the petition. The Hearing Examiner, Katherine Taylor, had determined that because the Department of Planning and Zoning (DPZ) did not list go-kart racing as a permitted activity, she lacked jurisdiction to hear the case.

The purpose of the Board of Appeals meeting was solely to determine whether they have jurisdiction to hear the case, which involved deciding if a go-kart track fell into the category of an “athletic field.” If the board determined

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