Hipwell Manufacturing Co. v. Zoning Board of Adjustment

Opinion by

Judge Craig,

This zoning appeal involves the classic variance issue: Where a zoning board has granted area and yard variances with respect to a permissible multiple-dwelling use, are the variances supported by record evidence demonstrating any unique circumstances of the property which would result in hardship — unusability of the property — if the variances were not granted?

As well summarized by the common pleas court opinion, the landowner’s property on Beech Avenue in the Allegheny West neighborhood of Pittsburgh has a width of ninety-two feet and a length of one hundred feet. It…