Township of Abington v. Rocks Associates, Inc.

Opinion by

Judge Rogebs,

The appellee in this zoning case, Rocks Associates, Inc., the equitable owner of a lot of land located on Easton Road, Abington Township, Montgomery County, applied to the Township Zoning Hearing Board for a special exception to make alterations to a building thereon and thereafter to use the property as a car wash and gasoline sales station. The Board denied the exception but the Court of Common Pleas reversed. This appeal by the township followed.

The record owner of the lot in question had used it for many years as a gasoline sales and service station but his most…