Ventresca v. Exley

Opinion by

Mb. Justice Horace Stern,

The Philadelphia Zoning Board of Adjustment, having granted certificates of variance for the erection and occupancy of a garage building in a residential district, subsequently rescinded its action and ordered the revocation of the permits. The court below held the revocation improper and set it aside, — a decision from which the City of Philadelphia and some intervening neighbors now appeal.

Ernest Ventresca, a sewer contractor, owner of a large unimproved lot on the east side of Oakley Street between Cottman Avenue and Walter Street, petitioned the Bureau…