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CITY OF BALTIMORE v. CRANE

[No. 131, September Term, 1975.]

277 Md. 198 (1976)

352 A.2d 786

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

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided March 3, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James E. Carbine and William W. Cahill, Jr., with whom were Richard S. Sokolov and Weinberg & Green on the brief, for appellants.

M. Albert Figinski and Joseph S. Kaufman, with whom were Melnicove, Greenbery, Kaufman & Weiner, P.A. on the brief, for appellees.

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

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

Two of the concepts frequently encountered in the law of zoning, "vested rights"1 and "contract zoning,"2 have acquired a contentious gloss. While both were referred to in the briefs and argument in this case, we are satisfied that neither concept is applicable here, at least not in the strict sense in which they are used in the cases.

In 1964, the appellees...

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