Tyler v. City of College Park

Appellants, four owners of affected rental properties in the City of College Park1 *and one student renter, contend that *482Appellees, the Mayor and Council of the City of College Park,2 enacted a novel (and apparently unprecedented) rent control program for the explicit purposes of discouraging in the City the rental property market in so-called “single-family” neighborhoods and nudging renters to nearby apartment buildings or future apartment complexes, rather than for the primary purpose of protecting tenants from exorbitant rental rates, the traditional rationale underlying rent control…