Burgoon v. Zoning Hearing Board

Opinion by

Judge Crumltsh, Jr.,

Appellants sought to continue to utilize three tracts of land in Charlestown Township, Chester County, as an Equestrian Center with the stated purpose of: “. . . instructing pupils in the techniques of horsemanship,. .. ,”1 They applied to the Zoning Hearing Board of Charlestown Township for a special exception as an “educational use” and it found that the use was not “educational” and rejected the application. The Court of Common Pleas of Chester County affirmed. Both erred.

*241The appellants, individual and corporate, own three contiguous tracts of land zoned F R…