Greenblatt v. Toney Schloss Properties Corp.

The Zoning Commissioner of Baltimore County refused to reclassify some twenty-one acres of land east of Stevenson Road between the Beltway on the south and Keyser Road on the north from R. 40 to R. 20. 1 The Board of Appeals, only two members sitting, granted the reclassification and the Circuit Court affirmed. The protesting neighbors appealed to this Court.

When the area underwent a comprehensive rezoning in 1957, the tract in question was part of a larger holding of some ninety acres. The western boundary line of the larger tract was made a dividing line between R. 40 zoning and R. 20…