Two months ago I wrote that the attempt by Susan Gray and
Paul Kendall to overturn fifteen years of HoCo zoning decisions was finally
over.
I was wrong.
After three years of losses in both federal and state courts, Kendall and Gray have been given yet another opportunity to make their
case. According to this story Arthur Hirsch in The Sun, “the Maryland Court of
Appeals agreed to consider whether the residents have the legal standing to
challenge years of decisions by several county agencies. The two argue that the
county's way of carrying out these actions deprived them of their right to
referendum, constrained their free speech and voting rights.”
"I feel passionate about it, the people involved feel
passionate about it," Susan B. Gray, the lawyer who represents one of the
residents in the appeal, said in an interview. "These are the most fundamental
rights we have."
I think this has become more about obsession than passion.
