Piper Group, Inc. v. Bedminster Township Board of Supervisors

OPINION

Justice BAER.

Appellants, the Piper Group, et al., 1 filed a constitutional challenge to a 1996 zoning ordinance enacted by Bedminster Township. In support of this challenge, Piper relied on an opinion from this Court that had been announced a mere six days earlier, pertaining to the same ordinance: C & M Developers, Inc. v. Bedminster Twp. Hearing Bd., 573 Pa. 2, 820 A.2d 143 (2002). In C & M, this Court invalidated the Township’s ordinance because it contained certain requirements that unconstitutionally restricted a landowner’s devel opment rights. Relying heavily on C & M, Piper…