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GRANT v. CITY OF BALTIMORE

[No. 102, October Term, 1956.]

212 Md. 301 (1957)

129 A.2d 363

GRANT ET AL. v. MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided February 14, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wilson K. Barnes and Frank B. Ober, with whom were William A. Grimes and C. Morton Goldstein on the brief, for the appellants.

Walter C. Mylander, Jr., and Charles C.W. Atwater, with whom were Thomas N. Biddison, City Solicitor of Baltimore, and Shirley Brannock Jones, Assistant City Solicitor, on the brief, for the appellees.

The cause was argued before BRUNE, C.J., and COLLINS, HENDERSON, HAMMOND and PRESCOTT, JJ.

HAMMOND, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

From the beginning of zoning in Baltimore billboards were excluded prospectively from residential districts, although those already there were permitted to remain as nonconforming uses. Then in 1950 the City Council passed Ordinance 1101, approved April 5 of that year, requiring all outdoor advertising structures in residential districts to be removed not later than five years from the passage of the ordinance. In 1953...

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