Peirce v. Zoning Board of Adjustment

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Benjamin R. Jones,

This is an appeal from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery County which reversed the refusal of the Zoning Board of Adjustment of Upper Dublin Township (Board) to grant a variance to Frank A. Peirce to use a portion of his residentiallyzoned land for gasoline service station purposes.

Pennsylvania Avenue (Avenue) — a 60 foot wide and very heavily traveled highway — leads from the Bethlehem Pike to Fort Washington Industrial Park, 1 to the Fort Washington entrance to the Pennsylvania Turnpike and to a clover-leaf interchange between the…