Halfway house not an accessory use to offices for the Board of Probation and Parole.
Phila. Suburban Dev. Corp. v. Scranton Zoning Hearing Bd., 41 A.3d 630 (Pa. Commw. Ct. 2012).
Regulation of Particular Uses
Interstate Outdoor Adver., L.P. v. Zoning Hearing Bd. (2012)
Ordinance was not de facto exclusionary to billboards where it permitted billboards to be no more than 25 feet tall and 50 square feet in area.
Interstate Outdoor Adver., L.P. v. Zoning Hearing Bd., 39 A.3d 1019 (Pa. Commw. Ct. 2012).
In re Appeal of Costco Wholesale Corp. (2012)
Gasoline filling station not permitted as accessory use to retail store where outdoor sales were not permitted in that zoning district.
In re Appeal of Costco Wholesale Corp., 49 A.3d 535 (Pa. Commw. Ct. 2012).
Robinson Twp. v. Commonwealth (2013)
Land use controls in Act 13 rewrite of the Oil & Gas Act were unconstitutional.
Robinson Twp. v. Commonwealth, 623 Pa. 564 (Pa 2013).
Tinicum Twp. v. Nowicki (2014)
Mulching operation is neither a forestry nor an agricultural use.
Tinicum Twp. v. Nowicki, 99 A.3d 586 (Pa. Commw. Ct. 2014).
THW Group, LLC v. Zoning Bd. of Adjustment (2014)
Methadone clinic constituted a medical office for the treatment of patients under the zoning ordinance definition.
THW Group, LLC v. Zoning Bd. of Adjustment, 86 A.3d 330 (Pa. Commw. Ct. 2014).
Schwartz v. Phila. Zoning Bd. of Adjustment (2015)
"Family" may be legally defined as "[a] person living independently or a group of persons living as a single household unit using housekeeping facilities in common, but not to include more than three persons unrelated by blood, marriage or adoption" in a zoning ordinance.
Schwartz v. Phila. Zoning Bd. of Adjustment, 126 A.3d 1032 (Pa. Commw. Ct. 2015).
Reed v. Town of Gilbert (2015)
A sign code is unconstitutional where it regulates signs based on their content, regardless of whether the sign code favors one speaker over another.
Reed v. Town of Gilbert, 135 S. Ct. 2218 (2015).
Barnabei v. Chadds Ford Twp. Zoning Hearing Bd. (2015)
Under the relevant zoning ordinance, a venue for events was not an accessory use for a large mansion in which Applicants resided in only a small portion.
Barnabei v. Chadds Ford Twp. Zoning Hearing Bd., 118 A.3d 17 (Pa. Commw. Ct. 2015).
Hartman v. Zoning Hearing Bd. of Cumru Twp. (2016)
Group of terminally ill persons living together fit within the ordinance's definition of family.
Hartman v. Zoning Hearing Bd. of Cumru Twp., 133 A.3d 806 (Pa. Commw. Ct. 2016)
Date of Decision: 2/12/16