BP Oil, Inc. v. Zoning Hearing Board

Opinion by

Judge Blatt,

The Appellant, BP Oil, Inc., appeals here from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Delaware *260County. In 1976 it had applied for and had been denied a permit to erect a gasoline station on its property in Brookhaven Borough. It had been given a zoning map by the zoning hearing officer of the Borough showing the property to be in a “C” commercial district and it was advised that gas stations were not a permitted use there. The record indicates that the property concerned had been originally zoned in 1960 as “O’’ commercial, a zone in which gasoline stations were a…