Upper St. Clair Township v. Commonwealth

The Secretary of the Department of Community Affairs, adopting the unanimous report of an administrative hearing panel,1 determined that a grant of State assistance to support the development of another neighborhood park in Upper St. Clair2 would not meet pressing community needs. Additionally, in light of the hearing panel’s conclusion that, *563as a result of restrictive zoning, “close to eighty percent of the families in [the Pittsburgh region] cannot think of living in Upper St. Clair,” the Secretary determined that the Township failed to show it was not an exclusionary community.3 The…