Chacona v. Zoning Board of Adjustment

NARICK, Senior Judge.

Chris J. Chacona, Objector, appeals from a decision of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County that affirmed the Philadelphia Zoning Board of Adjustment’s grant of a variance to Reed M. Axelrod, Applicant. We reverse.

Axelrod owns a two-and-one-half story house at 267 South 21st Street in Philadelphia. Chacona owns a three-story house at 265 South 21st Street. Both houses are located in an R-10 residential district.

On May 3, 1990, Axelrod applied to the Philadelphia Department of Licenses and Inspections for a zoning permit to erect an addition above the rear of…