Layne v. Zoning Board of Adjustment

Opinion by

Judge Craig,

Bessie Layne appeals from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County affirming a decision of the Zoning Board of Adjustment of the City of Pittsburgh (board), which denied her applica*260-tion for an Occupancy permit to nse a building as a boarding house.

The applicant is the lessee of a two-and-one-half story, .five-bedroom building which is occupied by seventeen- boarders, to whom the applicant provides meals, lodging, clothes and personal care on a long-term basis. The boarders range in age from 50 to 101 years.

Under the Pittsburgh Zoning Ordinance, the…