Food Corp. v. Zoning Board of Adjustment

Opinion by

Mr. Chief Justice Horace Stern,

This is an appeal from a decree of the court below reversing an order of the Zoning Board of Adjustment; the appeal is not by the Board itself but by an intervenor in the proceedings.

Food Corporation, which owns a tract of vacant ground, 166 by 119 feet, on the south side of Cottman Street between Algon Avenue and Somerdale Street in Philadelphia, applied for a use registration permit to build and operate thereon a drive-in, self-service restaurant, and, as accessory thereto, to maintain on the lot an off-street parking area. The tract in question is…