Hitz v. ZONING BD. OF SOUTH ANNVILLE TP.

FRIEDMAN, Judge.

Boyd M. Hitz and Judy Lynn Hitz (Landowners) 1 appeal from an order of the Lebanon County Court of Common Pleas (trial court) which affirmed the decision of the South Annville Township (Township) Zoning Hearing Board (ZHB) denying Landowners’ application for a variance to expand their nonconforming use of their property as an antiques mall. We also affirm but on different grounds. 2

In 1949, Landowners purchased the property in question for use as a family farm. (ZHB’s Findings of Fact, No. 5; R.R. 132a; R.R. 104a.) In 1973, the Township enacted its first zoning ordinance,…