MONT. CTY. v. WOODWARD & LOTHROP

[No. 104, September Term, 1976.]

280 Md. 686 (1977)

376 A.2d 483

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MARYLAND ET AL. v. WOODWARD & LOTHROP, INC. ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Certiorari denied February 21, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard E. Frederick, Assistant County Attorney, with whom was Richard S. McKernon, County Attorney, on the brief for Montgomery County, Maryland, part of appellants.

Roger W. Titus for Citizens Coordinating Committee on Friendship Heights, Inc. et al., part of appellants.

William S. Green, with whom were Pierson, Ball & Dowd and Richard M. Singer on the brief, for Special Taxing District of Friendship Heights and The Hills and the Friendship Heights Village Council, part of appellants.

Norman M. Glasgow, with whom was John F. McCabe, Jr. on the brief, for Morton Funger et al., part of appellees.

Stephen Z. Kaufman, with whom was Joseph P. Blocher on the brief, for Sidney S. Zlotnick et al., Homer S. Gudelsky, Trustee and The Marina Apartments, Inc., part of appellees.

Submitted on brief by Howard J. Thomas, with whom were Charles R. Donnenfeld, Arent, Fox, Kintner, Plotkin & Kahn for Woodward & Lothrop, Inc. et al. and by George H. Beuchert, Jr., for The Chevy Chase Land Company of Montgomery County, Md. and by William M. Canby, for Gevco Company, Inc. et al., part of appellees.

Amicus curiae brief filed by Prince George's County, Maryland, James C. Chapin, County Attorney, Michael O. Connaughton, Deputy County Attorney and Steven M. Gilbert, Associate County Attorney, on the brief.

The cause was argued before MURPHY, C.J., and SINGLEY, SMITH, DIGGES, LEVINE and ORTH, JJ.


Certiorari denied, Supreme Court of the United States, February 21, 1978.

MURPHY, C.J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

These appeals draw into question the validity of a rezoning by sectional map amendment of all properties within the Central Business District of Friendship Heights, Montgomery County, Maryland.

The Regional District Act, Maryland Code (1957, 1976 Cum. Supp.) Art. 66D, § 8-101 (b) grants zoning power to the Montgomery County...

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