Viechec v. Zoning Hearing Board of Hazle Township

LORD, Senior Judge.

Hazle Township, intervenor before the Lu-zerne County Common Pleas Court, appeals that court’s order sustaining the appeal of permit holder Gary Viechec and reversing the Hazle Township Zoning Hearing Board’s (ZHB) denial of his permit.

This appeal presents an unusual and interesting question on the status of a municipality as an intervening appellee in a zoning challenge when it is determined that the appellee originally bringing the challenge to the zoning decision lacked standing to do so. In April of 1992, Viechec filed a building permit application to construct an…