Eschinger v. Bus

The appellant, Eschinger, owns one hundred acres of land' fronting on Brewer’s Creek, a tributary of the South River in Anne Arundel County. In 1956 he was granted a rezoning of 1.44 acres at the waterfront from agricultural to heavy commercial to permit the building of a marina. The surrounding ninety-eight acres plus remained agricultural.

In 1965 when he sought additional mooring spaces, Eschinger was told by the zoning authorities that he lacked space on his commercially zoned land to build an additional pier and, what to him was worse, that seven of his existing twenty-seven slips at the…