Mayor of Baltimore v. Byrd

As originally passed, Ordinance No. 1247 of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, known as the Zoning Ordinance, provided in Paragraph 34 that a filling station for the sale of inflammable liquids should be permitted only by authority of public ordinance of the Mayor and City Council, even in a district where such use of property was not prohibited by the general use regulations. Under this provision numerous ordinances were passed by the Mayor and City Council permitting the erection of filling stations in various parts of the city, but this method was subsequently abandoned, and by…