Cherrystone Inlet v. Bd. of Zoning Appeals

RUSSELL, Senior Justice.

This appeal presents the question whether a Board of Zoning Appeals properly denied variances, sought by a property owner, where overlapping setback lines imposed by the zoning ordinance precluded the erection of any residential structures on property located in a residential district.

Facts and Proceedings

The essential facts are undisputed. By deed dated January 9, 2004, Cherrystone Inlet, LLC, (Cherrystone) acquired from the Bromley estate several parcels of land in Northampton County in the vicinity of Cherrystone Inlet, parts of which extended to the low water mark…