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Key Topic: Municipal Procedure

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Where an applicant for a variance grants the ZHB an extension to render its decision, the ZHB's failure to render a written decision by the extended date will result in a deemed approval of the application

Conceptual Development, Inc. v Hampton Twp. Zoning Hearing Board (2005)
Failure to record ordinance

Cranberry Park Assoc. v. Cranberry Twp. ZHB (2000)
Enforcement notice not necessary when building permit is obtained by misrepresentation

Elotron v. ZHB of the City of Aliquippa (1999)
Must challenge a zoning ordinance with 30 days of its enactment

Glen-Gery Corp. v. ZHB of Dover Twp. (2004)
A municipal board must send each revision of a proposed zoning ordinance--including explanatory materials--to the county planning commission for recommendation, and cannot hold a public hearing on the ordinance for at least 45 days after the board’s last revision

Haller v. Lower Windsor Twp. Board of Supervisors (2005)
Procedure of submitting amendments to the zoning ordinance

Muhlenberg College v. ZHB of the City of Allentown
Property owners adjacent to a municipality adopting a new zoning ordinance have standing to challenge both the procedural and substantive aspects of the ordinance.

Provco Partners v. Limerick Twp. Zoning Hearing Board (2004)
Failure to post property affected by zoning change is fatal flaw to validity of zoning ordinance

Rickert v. Latimore Twp. Board of Supervisors (2004)
ZHB's order to Landlord to vacate tenants in four months was adequate notice

Ruiz v. New Garden Township (2004)
Revised Section 5571(c)(5) of the Judicial Code limits the time to file procedural appeals from MPC ordinances

Rural Route Neighbors v. East Buffalo Tp. Zoning Hearing Board (2004)
Procedure of submitting amendments to the zoning ordinance

Schadler v. ZHB of Weisenberg Twp. (2004)
Description of how to toll “successive weeks”

Stassi v. Ranson Twp. ZHB (2001)
Must challenge an ordinance with 30 days of its enactment

Taylor v. Harmony Twp. Board of Commissioners (2004)

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