Mehl v. Stegner, Dir. of Dept. of Bldgs.

If street boundaries were to influence the metes and bounds of zones, it would be natural that the limits of Business “A” district should include the entire square north on Reading Road to Lexington Avenue, especially as directly north of plaintiff’s property, across Reading Road is Business “A” district.

It is manifest also in this connection that if plaintiff’s property is to be continued in a residential district, there being no street intervening between this property on the south and Business “A” district, that its proximity and contiguity to such business district will have a detrimental…