McKay v. Board of Adjustment

Opinion by

Judge Crumlish, Jr.,

Mary E. McKay, in her capacity as Secretary to and by authority of the Township Commissioner of North Huntingdon, Westmoreland County, appealed the order of the Court of Common Pleas of Westmoreland County which upheld the North Huntingdon Township Board of Adjustment’s grant of a variance to Florence M. Evans who sought to use her property as a gasoline service station.

Evans entered into an agreement of sale in 1962 and in 1964 applied for a variance under the applicable zoning provisions.1 In 1965 the deed was executed. After a hearing held in 1966 a variance…