Heichel v. Springfield Township Zoning Hearing Board

LEAVITT, Judge.

Janice Heichel, Executrix of the Estate of Joseph Sklodowski (Landowner), appeals an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Bucks County (trial court) denying Landowner’s appeal of a decision of the Springfield Township Zoning Hearing Board (Board). The trial court upheld the Board’s denial of Landowner’s application for a salvage yard permit for the stated reason that Landowner had abandoned the non-conforming use of the property as a salvage yard. We reverse and remand.

Landowner’s property consists of forty acres of land, 1 where the decedent, Joseph Sklodowski, established…