Furnace Branch Land Co. v. Board of County Commissioners

Appellant sought a mandatory injunction to compel the Board of County Commissioners of Anne Arundel County to rescind, as unconstitutional and void, its resolution denying the application to rezone two tracts of land from Agricultural to Garden-Type Apartment classification and to compel the Board to grant the requested reclassification. Judge Duckett, sitting in the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County, found that the question the Board had to answer was fairly debatable and that its refusal to rezone was not arbitrary, discriminatory or illegal. We think he was right.

The land in question…