Swift v. Zoning Hearing Board

Opinion by

Judge Blatt,

This is an appeal by Joseph H. Swift and other neighborhood residents (appellants) from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery County. That court, after taking additional evidence in an appeal from a ruling the Zoning Hearing Board of Abington Township (Board), sustained the conclusion of the Board that the use of property by the Crestmont Half-Way House, here an intervenor, was a “community center or similar use” as permitted by the Township zoning ordinance.

Our review in a zoning appeal where the lower court took additional evidence is to determine whether…