Sullivan v. Zoning Board of Adjustment

Opinion by

Judge Rogers,

Edward Sullivan has appealed from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County affirming a decision of the City of Philadelphia Zoning Board of Adjustment upholding the denial by the Department of Licenses and Inspections (L & I) of his application for a zoning permit or, in the alternative, a variance,1 which would allow him to construct a one story 10% by 13 feet structure to house a trash baler located at the site of his nonconforming junkyard.

*231The appellant’s property was purchased by his grandfather in 1912 and was used by the latter as a junkyard…