MBC Realty, LLC v. Mayor & City Council

EYLER, JAMES R, J.

MBC Realty, LLC, an appellant, and various other landowners in Baltimore City,1 filed in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City a petition for judicial review of certain ordinances enacted by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, an appellee. The effect of the ordinances in question was to permit general *380advertising signs to be placed on the 1st Mariner Arena as a conditional use under the City’s zoning laws. Appellants challenged the validity of the ordinances on the ground that they constituted illegal spot, piecemeal, contract, and conditional zoning and on the ground…