MBC REALTY v. BALTIMORE

No. 48, September Term, 2007.

941 A.2d 1052 (2008)

MBC REALTY, LLC, et al. v. The MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE, et al.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

February 13, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

M. Albert Figinksi (Law Offices of Peter G. Angelos, James E. Carbine, James E. Carbine, P.C., Baltimore), all on brief for petitioners.

George A. Nilson (Sandra R. Gutman, Adam S. Levine, Baltimore), on brief, Herbert Better (P. Andrew Torrez, Zuckerman Spaeder, LLP, Baltimore), on brief, for respondents.

George A. Nilson (Sandra R. Gutman, Adam S. Levine; Baltimore), on brief, for petitioners.

Argued before BELL, C.J., RAKER, HARRELL, BATTAGLIA, GREENE, ALAN M. WILNER (Retired, specially assigned) and DALE R. CATHELL (Retired, specially assigned), JJ.


HARRELL, J.

I.

At the center of this dispute are three pieces of municipal legislation: one amending the text of an urban renewal plan; one a zoning ordinance text amendment permitting, with the grant of a conditional use, general outdoor advertising signs (billboards) on publicly-owned stadia or arenas in Baltimore City's B-5 zone; and, the last granting such a conditional use for 14 billboards on the exterior of the First Mariner Arena (the "Arena"). A...

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