Johnston v. Upper MacUngie Township

CRAIG, President Judge.

Pursuant to order granting reargument, we now reconsider Upper Macungie Township’s appeal of an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Lehigh County that (1) denied the township’s motion to strike an appeal of landowners James and Betty Johnston from an order of a district justice and (2) remanded the case to the district justice to hold a hearing regarding the question of whether or not the landowners violated a provision of the township’s zoning ordinance, by operating a business in their home.

The issues the township raises in this appeal are: (1) whether the trial…