Maryland-National Capital Park & Planning Commission v. Rosenberg

In this appeal, stemming from the confrontation of a landowner and the appellant (the Commission), we are asked to consider what is known in Prince George’s County as the “Adequate Public Facilities Ordinance.” In- some jurisdictions similar enactments have been called “timing and sequential control” ordinances. They are said by professional planners to be the most important advance in planning and zoning law since Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty Co., 272 U. S. 365 (1926). The Commission makes much of the fact that a similar ordinance has received the guarded approval of the Court of…