Novello v. Zoning Board of Adjustment

Opinion by

Mb. Chief Justice Horace Stern,

The question is whether the Board of Adjustment was authorized, under the Philadelphia Zoning Ordinance, to issue a certificate for permission to use a building as a “Car Wash” in an area zoned “A Commercial.”

The building is located at the southwest corner of Broad and Beed Streets in Philadelphia. A church edifice which had stood there was abandoned by the church a few years ago. The four corners of the intersection are all zoned “A Commercial” and there are many stores and other non-residential establishments in the immediate vicinity. The…