Copley Township Board of Trustees v. Lorenzetti

Batchelder, Presiding Judge.

{¶1} Appellant, Pamela Lorenzetti, appeals from the judgment of the Summit County Court of Common Pleas, upholding the decision of the Copley Township Board of Zoning Appeals (“BZA”), denying appellant a conditional zoning certificate and finding no constitutional defects in the actions taken by the BZA or in the zoning resolution. We reverse.

I

A. Background

{¶2} The factual history of this matter began over twenty-five years ago. Appellant’s parents, Theodore and Emogene Frashure, owned a large piece of real property in Copley Township. In 1975, Mr. Frashure, a home…