Hauser v. Borough of Catasauqua Zoning Hearing Board

Opinion by

Judge Blatt,

This is a zoning appeal taken by Harold A. J. Hauser and Jean M. Hauser (landowners) from the Court of Common Pleas of Lehigh County which affirmed the Zoning Hearing Board (Board) of the Borough of Catasauqua (Borough). The Board had held that the landowners’ application to convert a pre-existing nonconforming use should be denied in part and granted in part.

The landowners’ property, located on both sides of Lehigh Street in the Borough, was originally zoned in *315June of 1962 when the Borough adopted a zoning ordinance. At that time the property was being used as a coal…