Prince George's County v. Ray's Used Cars

This case concerns a challenge to the constitutionality of a zoning ordinance establishing a minimum lot size of 25,000 square feet for used motor “jyjehicle, mobile home, or camping trailer sales lot[s].” 1 The dispositive issue in the case, however, is whether the ordinance’s challengers were first required to invoke and exhaust administrative remedies. The petitioner, Prince George’s County, argues that a judicial determination of the constitutionality of the zoning ordinance is premature because the respondent used car dealers failed to invoke and exhaust their administrative remedies.…