Mayor of Baltimore v. State Department of Health & Mental Hygiene

This Court, in Youngstown Cartage Co. v. N. Point Peninsula Community Co-Ordinating Council, 24 Md. App. 624, 628, 332 A. 2d 718, 720 (1975), found it unnecessary to decide whether a municipality had authority to zone land “owned and used by the State.” We pointed out that “[t]he question of a county’s right to zone” such land “does not appear to have been decided thus far in Maryland.” 24 Md. App. at 628, n. 4, 332 A. 2d at 720. Subsequently, the Court of Appeals, in Mayor of Baltimore v. State, 281 Md. 217, 378 A. 2d 1326 (1977), came firmly to grip with the problem. The Court, speaking…