Davis v. Zoning Board of Adjustment

Opinion by

Judge Williams, Jr.,

This is an appeal from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County which affirmed the decision of the Zoning Board of Adjustment (Board) granting a variance to Ellis Thomas Arthurs and Harold Bowman, Jr. (applicants) for the rehabilitation and use of an abandoned apartment building as a multi-family dwelling.

Applicants seek to rehabilitate a vacant, dilapidated, four-story apartment building, situate in an area zoned “R-9 Residential,” for use as a seventeen family unit dwelling. Although such use is permitted in the “R-9” zone, the premises does…