Risker v. Smith Township Zoning Hearing Board

OPINION BY

Judge COHN JUBELIRER.

Smith Township (Township) appeals from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Washington County (trial court), which reversed a determination of the Smith Township Zoning Hearing Board (ZHB) that a grass landing strip is not an accessory use to a single family dwelling.

The appellees, Dale Risker and his parents, Chester and Ethel Risker (collectively referred to as Landowners) sought permission to construct a one hundred foot wide and nineteen' hundred foot long grass landing strip, with landing lights, on part of their forty-five acres of land in Smith…