California Car Wash of Allentown, Inc. v. Zoning Hearing Board

Opinion by

Senior Judge Rogers,

California Car Wash of Allentown, Inc. (landowner) and Texaco, Inc., applicants, have appealed from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Lehigh County affirming the decision of the Zoning Hearing Board of Whitehall Township (Board) that the applicants’ application for “authorization of the continuation, change, and expansion of a nonconforming use from a service station to a service station with a food mart” should be denied because the nonconforming use had been abandoned.

The landowner owns a lot with frontage on two public roads in Whitehall Township,…