Conley v. Montgomery County

This is another in a rapidly lengthening line of zoning cases where property owners are not satisfied because the zoning authority refused to reclassify their property from “residential” to “commercial.” The facts and the law are much the same; only the names of the property owners have been changed.

The Conleys and Adamsons (the petitioners) are the owners of an unimproved residentially zoned lot at the southwest corner of Flora Avenue and Woodland Drive in Silver Spring. They acquired the property in 1953 for the purpose of using it as a parking lot in connection with the commercially zoned…