Newspaper clippings, correspondence, audit reports, memos, transcripts of related proceedings (such as condemnation), publications, schedules of hearings, photographs, reports, drawings and plats, notes and working papers, and other miscellaneous adminstrative materials generated by the board of zoning appeals and the BMZA. This is primarily a subject file with the addition of correspondence to and from various agencies.

Files created within the last five years are maintained in the offices of the board. All others are housed in the Baltimore City Archives.