In re Appeal of Zambrano Corp.

Opinion by

Judge Rogers,

The City of Pittsburgh has appealed from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County adopting the recommendation of a court appointed referee that the City be required to issue an occupancy permit to the Zambrano Corporation (Zambrano) allowing it to operate a beauty salon in its building located in an A-l Residential district, where commercial uses are permitted only by special exception.

Zambrano is the owner of a two and one-half story structure which it built in 1968 and leased to a retail shoe business for about ten years. During that time the first…