Civera v. Zoning Board of Adjustment

Opinion by

Judge Craig,

This is an appeal by a neighboring property owner from the lower court’s decision affirming the Philadelphia Zoning Board of Adjustment’s (Board) grant of a use variance to the Woodmere Art Gallery, Inc. (Woodmere) for the construction of a private off-street parking facility on its premises.

The Department of Licenses and Inspections refused a permit when Woodmere applied to build the parking lot on the ground that non-residential parking-lots were not permitted uses in the R-l district in which Woodmere’s property is located. The Board granted a variance for the parking…