SYCAMORE REALTY CO., INC. v. PEOPLE'S COUNSEL OF BALTIMORE CTY.

No. 130, Sept. Term, 1995.

684 A.2d 1331 (1996)

344 Md. 57

SYCAMORE REALTY CO., INC. v. PEOPLE'S COUNSEL OF BALTIMORE COUNTY, Relay Improvement Association, Louisa Vanderbeek, Herbert Plitt and John Heinrichs.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

November 21, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas M. Wood, IV (Jeffrey T. Bubier, Neuberger, Quinn, Gielen, Rubin & Gibber, on brief, Baltimore; Edward C. Covahey, Jr., Anthony J. DiPaula, Covahey and Boozer, P.A., on brief) Baltimore, for Petitioner.

Peter Max Zimmerman, People's Counsel for Baltimore County; (Carole S. DeMilio, Deputy People's Counsel, J. Carroll Holzer, Holzer and Lee, all on brief) Towson, for Respondent.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J. and ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, CHASANOW, KARWACKI, BELL, and RAKER, JJ.


CHASANOW, Judge.

In this case, we are called upon to decide whether Baltimore County should be estopped from enforcing a new zoning scheme, enacted during the County's quadrennial rezoning process, against a property owner whose property was under reservation for potential acquisition by the County at the time it was downzoned. For the following reasons we hold that the County should not be estopped.

I.

The facts in this case are simply stated. Petitioner...

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