Lamar Advertising Co. v. Zoning Hearing Board of the Municipality of Monroeville

OPINION BY Judge

LEAVITT.

Lamar Advertising Company (Lamar) appeals an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County (trial court) that disapproved Lamar’s two separate proposals to rebuild a number of its billboards in the Municipality of Monroeville. First, the trial court denied Lamar’s request for a writ of mandamus, finding that it was not entitled to a deemed approval of one application. Second, the trial court affirmed the decision of the Zoning Hearing Board of the Municipality of Monroeville (ZHB) that Lamar’s proposal to replace the vinyl advertising copy on seventeen…