Gilmor v. Mayor and City Council

This appeal is from an order of the Baltimore City Court, which affirmed the action of the Board of Munici pal and Zoning. Appeals of Baltimore in granting an application for the erection of billboards in a first commercial use district. The appellants are nearby property owners.

The Maryland Advertising Company, one of the appellees, sought a permit to erect, on an unimproved triangular lot at the southeast corner of Cathedral and Chase Streets in Baltimore, two illuminated poster boards, which were to be of all steel construction, set back seventy feet from the south edge of, and parallel…