Heller v. Zoning Board of Adjustment

Opinion by

Mb. Justice Bok,

The Philadelphia Zoning Board of Adjustment affirmed the zoning administrator’s refusal to issue a building permit to appellants, who then appealed here.

The property is a mid-block, four-storey brownstone house at 2130 Spruce Street that has been converted, under a permit approved by the board in 1959, into a multiple-family structure with nine luxury apartments. Without any exterior change contemplated, the owner now wants to add another apartment. The board has treated the case as one of variance, while appellants consider it as a simple matter of a building…