Poe v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore

This zoning appeal turns on the right of owners of property in Baltimore City to attack the constitutionality of the City’s 1931 Zoning Ordinance as applied to their property under the Uniform Declaratory Judgments Act, without first exhausting their administrative remedies. The bill brought against the May- or and City Council of Baltimore alleges that, under the 1931 ordinance, (Baltimore City Code (1950) Art. 40) the appellants’ property was zoned residential and that the classification has not been changed; that there has been a substantial change in conditions; that, at the time of the…