Prince George's County v. McBride

At first glance, one might view this appeal as one taken from the mere denial of a rezoning application, and thus expect it to be decided somewhat routinely in accordance with the abundant collection of zoning cases that now repose in the Maryland Reports. Indeed, but for the enactment of Chapter 278, Laws of Maryland, 1969, we might well have been concerned in this case merely with the commonplace zoning question of whether the evidence of “change” was fairly debatable. As it happens, what began as a “garden variety” zoning case has blossomed into one presenting significant issues of…