Charles J. Cirelli & Sons, Inc. v. Harford County Council

Charles J. Cirelli & Sons, Inc. (Cirelli), appellant, contracted to purchase from Richard Street a 6.425 acre parcel of land in Harford County. The 6.425 acres had been part of a larger tract of land owned by Street, all of which was zoned for agricultural use when the Harford County Zoning Map was adopted in 1958. In 1962, 2.61 acres of the tract were zoned B-l (Neighborhood Business District). Because of severances caused by road construction, the original tract was reduced to 6.425 acres (including the 2.61 acres already zoned for business use) which Street contracted to sell to Cirelli.…