Bell v. Anne Arundel County

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County dismissing with prejudice a challenge to a 2011 comprehensive rezoning ordinance. The appellants1 are property owners and community associations asserting *166that the rezoning ordinance is invalid as to certain properties. The appellees are the County and some of the affected property owners.2 In granting appellees’ motions for summary judgment, the circuit court concluded that appellants did not have standing to bring a challenge and that appellants had failed to join all necessary parties to the litigation.

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