Lower Mount Bethel Township v. Stabler Development Co.

Opinion by

Senior Judge Barbieri,

This is a zoning appeál wherein Lower Mount Bethel Township (Township), Appellant, appeals here an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Northampton County. That order denied the Townships request for an injunction to prevent the Appellees, Stabler Development Company (Stabler) and Eastern Industries, Inc., (Eastern), from quarrying sand and gravel, in violation of the Townships zoning ordinance, on a forty acre tract of land owned by Stabler in the Township. We reverse. '

The factual background of this case is somewhat complex. Stabler owns approximately eight…