Poole v. Board of Zoning Appeals

“Zoning was put in force in Hagerstown on September 6,1951.” City of Hagerstown v. Hutson, 229 Md. 475, 476 (1962). On that day Dr. Edward Vail, a veterinarian, owned three contiguous lots improved by a frame structure known as #1025 Pennsylvania Avenue. It is agreed that, since about 1944, he had been using the property as an animal hospital and that he had maintained kennels for the boarding of all types of pet animals, uses proscribed by the 1951 ordinance which classified the area as “Residential A.” Dr. Vail continued the nonconforming uses of his property until March 1969 when he sold…