Woodlawn Area Citizens Ass'n v. Board of County Commissioners

Hammond, J.,

delivered the majority opinion of the Court. Barnes, J., dissents. Dissenting opinion at page 201, infra.

Nearby homeowners in a presently relatively rural suburban *189area in Prince George’s County are appealing the action of the District Council in changing some forty-seven acres of undeveloped and, for the most part, heavily wooded land surrounded by individual homes and schools from its present zoning for detached houses for one family, a status it has had since the last comprehensive zoning of that part of the County in 1949, to land zoned for garden apartments so as to permit…