[DOWNLOAD] "South Coventry Township Board of Supervisors v. Zoning Hearing Board of South Coventry Township" by Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court # eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: South Coventry Township Board of Supervisors v. Zoning Hearing Board of South Coventry Township
- Author : Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court
- Release Date : January 17, 1999
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 79 KB
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ARGUED: March 12, 1999 The Board of Supervisors (Supervisors) of South Coventry Township (Township) appeals from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Chester County that denied the Supervisors' appeal from an order of the Zoning Hearing Board of the Township (Board). The Board concluded that certain non-conforming structures erected by Merribrook Associates (Merribrook) were authorized by the Township's zoning ordinance. The Supervisors question whether the Board erred in applying a liberal construction of an ordinance provision that permits rebuilding of non-conforming structures to decrease or eliminate non-conformities, where non-conforming structures were destroyed by fire more than five years earlier, and another ordinance provision prohibits restoration of non-conforming structures destroyed by fire if the restoration commences more than one year after the fire. I.