Zengerle v. Board of County Commissioners

“Keep your nose to the wind” is an old adage that local government officials must ignore in choosing a location for a sanitary landfill. Reconciled to this odious but necessary task, the appellees, the Frederick County Board of County Commissioners, selected a reasonably isolated 104 acre farm a few miles east of Frederick city as the site and braced themselves for the inevitable barrage of objections from landowners who considered themselves downwind from the proposed facility. Joseph C. Zengerle, Jr. from the nearby town of Ijamsville, Maryland, and twenty-eight other property owners are…