Dishler v. Zoning Board of Adjustment

Opinion

Per Curiam,

Appellants, owners of two adjoining properties in Cheltenham Township, Montgomery County, located in an area zoned “AA” Residential, which allows only single-family dwellings, applied for the issuance of a variance to permit construction of an apartment building thereon. The zoning board of adjustment denied the application and its decision was affirmed by the court below. This appeal followed.

In order to establish the right to a variance, an applicant must prove: (1) An unnecessary hardship upon and which is unique or peculiar to the property involved, and (2) that the…