Overstreet v. Zoning Hearing Board

Opinion by

Judge Craig,

These zoning cross-appeals come to us from the Court of Common Pleas of Chester County, which adopted a referee’s report and denied application of the Overstreets (owners) for permission to extend their mobilehome park in Schuylkill Township.

The subject property is a roughly rectangular tract of about 15.5 acres, bisected by a minor stream trending northwest to southeast, which generally divides the northeast portion from the remainder.

In the late 1940’s Clyde Kahler, an early predecessor in interest, established a mobilehome park in the westerly portion of the tract,…