Schmidt v. Philadelphia Zoning Board of Adjustment

Opinion by

Mb. Justice Jones,

The court below dismissed an objecting property owner’s appeal from an order of the Zoning Board of Adjustment of Philadelphia sustaining the issuance by the City’s administrative zoning officer of a use registration permit to the applicant (and present intervenor) for the construction of an office and factory on property in the Somerton section of the 35th Ward of the City. The objecting property owner has appealed.

The sole question involved is whether the City’s amendatory zoning ordinance of 1952, which reclassified the property in question as available for…