Gorin v. Board of County Commissioners

The Board of County Commissioners for Anne Arundel County (the Board) denied the appellants’ requests to rezone their property, consisting of about 600 acres, to various classifications; the appellants filed a bill for mandatory injunction in the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County to set aside the Board’s adverse decisions; 1 the court upheld the Board’s refusal to grant the applications, and this appeal resulted. The County Commissioners, in a comprehensive zoning plan for the entire county adopted in 1952, had originally zoned all of the tract “agriculture.” Under that classification, in…