Grant v. Mayor of Baltimore

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that the reasonableness of a zoning ordinance depends on the “importance of the public gain in relation to the private loss”
• “Indeed, there is general agreement that the fundamental problem facing zoning is the inability to eliminate the nonconforming use”
• “[T]he earnest aim and ultimate purpose of zoning was and is to reduce nonconformance to conformance as speedily as possible with due regard to the legitimate interests of all concerned.”
• “[T]he earnest aim and ultimate purpose of zoning was and is to reduce nonconformance to conformance as speedily as possible with due regard to the legitimate interests of all concerned, and the ordinances forbid or limit expansion of nonconforming uses----”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).