Boulevard Scrap Co. v. Mayor of Baltimore

This appeal is from an order of the Baltimore City Court, affirming a resolution of the Board of Municipal and Zoning Appeals, disapproving an application of the appellant for a permit to use a certain lot of land for “storage and cutting of scrap metals and also the purchase, sale and preparation of scrap iron and metals and the re-sale of salvageable materials”. The appellant contended below, and contends here, that the proposed operation does not fall within the definition of a “junk yard” in the Ordinance, and, if it does, that a nonconforming use was established that renders the…