Borough of Edgeworth v. MacLeod

Opinion by

Judge MacPhail,

The Borough of Edgeworth (Borough) has filed this appeal from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County. That order sustained the appeal of Donald S. MacLeod (MacLeod) and held the Borough’s Ordinance No. 393 to be invalid. We affirm.

Ordinance No. 393, entitled the “Edgeworth Environmental Assessment Ordinance,” was advertised on June 24, 1981 and was enacted by the Borough’s Council at its regular meeting on July 13, 1981. The ordinance was by its terms made retroactive to June 24, 1981. MacLeod1 filed an appeal to the Court of Common Pleas on July…