Board of County Commissioners v. Turf Valley Associates

The basic question in this zoning case is whether an application for rezoning a large tract of land from a one and two family residential district into garden-type apartments and shopping center districts is to be determined by the principles applicable to a request for spot-rezoning or by the approach this ■Court has adopted in respect of the placement of a particular property into a “floating zone.”

The appellee is the owner of some 730 acres in Howard 'County, bounded on the south by U. S. Route 40, a dual highway, on the north by an interstate highway under construction and on the west and…