Smucker v. Lancaster City Planning Commission

OPINION BY

Judge LEAVITT.

Samuel S. Smucker, Hannah B. Smucker and William H. McMichael (Property *350Owners)1 appeal an order of the Lancaster County Court of Common Pleas (trial court) certifying Property Owners’ vacant property as blighted and authorizing the City’s Redevelopment Authority to file a declaration of taking. Property Owners argue that the City did not prove the property was blighted because it did not first establish that the property was vacant. Discerning no error, we affirm.

Property Owners own property located at 528 East King Street in Lancaster. The property is a brick row…