Jones v. Zoning Board

Opinion by

Judge Rogers,

This is a landowner’s appeal from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Northampton County, entered following a de novo hearing, by which the trial court affirmed the denial of the appellant’s variance application by the Zoning Hearing Board of North Catasauqua Township.

The facts are entirely undisputed. The appellant purchased in 1978 a vacant lot of insufficient width to permit development by the construction of a-'detached dwelling under the terms of the zoning regulations applicable to the zoning district in which the lot is located. The original subdivision of…