Boreth v. Philadelphia Zoning Board of Adjustment

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Cohen,

Mary Boreth, appellant, filed an application for a use registration permit to operate a beauty shop in the basement of her premises. The application was refused and the zoning board, after a public hearing, also refused to issue the permit to her. Thereafter, she took an appeal to the court of common pleas contending that the operation of her beauty shop is a “home occupation” as that term is defined in the Philadelphia ordinance. From an order dismissing her appeal, she took the present appeal.

The appellant is co-owner, with her husband, of premises 1247 Levick…