The City Council tonight approved a bill aimed at guiding Baltimore’s land use for the next half a century.

Six years in the making, TransForm Baltimore’s 500-plus pages of text, tables and maps will replace the current zoning law enacted in 1971.

What was expected to be the bill’s smooth passage, however, was interrupted by 7th District Councilman Nick Mosby, who denounced his colleagues after a majority of them stripped his regulations for liquor establishments out of the measure.

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