Mayor of Baltimore v. Linthicum

This is an appeal in a third proceeding on applications for a use of a lot of ground in Baltimore City which the buildings engineer and the board of zoning appeals refused in each instance. The appellee, who was the applicant, owns a lot in a residential use district of the city, and has leased it to the United States for a substation post office there. A first application for a permit for the use, made in January, 1933, was refused because it was considered to be a business use, prohibited for such a district by the zoning ordinance of the city. In October of the same year the second…