Society Created to Reduce Urban Blight v. Zoning Board of Adjustment

COLINS, Judge.

Amtrak National Railroad Passenger Corporation and Interstate Outdoor Advertising appeal the order of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County reversing the grant of a variance that would permit Amtrak to erect an outdoor advertising sign on its property approximately 200 feet west of the eastbound lanes of the Schuylkill Expressway and approximately 670 feet south of Spring Garden Street, in a district zoned G 2 General Industrial.

In November 1999, Amtrak applied for a zoning permit to erect a freestanding, single-face, illuminated, non-accessory, outdoor advertising…