Society Created to Reduce Urban Blight v. Zoning Board of Adjustment

OPINION BY

Judge SIMPSON.

Callowhill Center Associates and Metro Lights, LLC (Applicants) appeal an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County (trial court) reversing the grant of a variance to erect an outdoor advertising sign by the Zoning Board of Adjustment of the City of Philadelphia (Board). We affirm.

In 1999, Applicants erected a 65 foot by 100 foot non-accessory sign on the wall of a building located on North 7th Street in Philadelphia. In February 2000, after the sign had been in place for one year, Applicants applied to the Philadelphia Department of Licenses and…