East Lampeter Township v. County of Lancaster

JIULIANTE, Senior Judge.

In this ease, the trial court was presented with a conflict concerning the legislative intent underlying two important State Acts, the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code (MPC)1 and the Pennsylvania Human Relations Act (Human Relations Act),2 and the interaction and jurisdiction of two influential local agencies, a county human relations commission and a township.3 We must determine whether the trial court erred in determining that the township’s attempt to invoke equity and the Declaratory Judgments Act (DJA)4 was inappropriate where it alleged that the county…