City of Bowie v. MIE, Properties, Inc.

We concern ourselves here with the standard for determining a challenge to the continuing vitality of restrictive covenants on real property. This case involves a set of restrictive covenants, recorded in 1986, encumbering originally a 466 acre parcel of land (“the Property”) in Prince George’s County. The current parties to the covenants are the City of Bowie, Maryland (“the City”), an original covenantee, and MIE, Inc. (“MIE”), a successor covenantor and current owner of the remainder of the Property. MIE’s predecessor in title agreed with the City to a Declaration of Covenants (“the…