Board of County Commissioners v. Holbrook

COLE, Judge.

In this case we will decide whether the Cecil County Board of Appeals acted arbitrarily and capriciously in denying a mobile home owner’s request for a special exception to permanently locate his trailer in an area zoned for agricultural use. We set forth the facts as follows.

In July, 1985, the respondent, Lundy B. Holbrook, obtained a temporary building permit 1 which permitted him to move a mobile home onto his heavily wooded 2.8 acre parcel of land located in a sparsely developed rural area of Cecil County. Holbrook placed his mobile home in a small clearing near the borderline…