BOARD OF COUNTY COMM'RS v. PRITCHARD

No. 114, September Term, 1987.

312 Md. 522 (1988)

540 A.2d 1139

BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF CALVERT COUNTY, MD. ET AL. v. DENZIL PRITCHARD ET UX.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

May 9, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mary M. Krug and Allen S. Handen (Handen and Singerman, on brief), Prince Frederick, for appellant.

Gary A. Goldstein (Charles E. Haller, on brief), Baltimore, for appellee.

Argued before ELDRIDGE, COLE, RODOWSKY, McAULIFFE, ADKINS, BLACKWELL, JJ., and CHARLES E. ORTH, Jr., Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals of Maryland (retired), Specially Assigned.


RODOWSKY, Judge.

In this case owners whose land was downzoned before they acquired any vested rights in the prior zoning classification argue that the downzoning violates procedural due process. The argument succeeded in the Court of Special Appeals but, as hereinafter explained, does not succeed here.

Respondents, Denzil and Elizabeth Pritchard (the Pritchards), own a tract of 21.569 acres in the northeast quadrant of the intersection of Maryland Route 4...

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