Environmental Communities of Pennsylvania, Inc. v. North Coventry Township

Opinion by

Judge Crumlish, Jr.,

We are again confronted with a municipal zoning ordinance which totally excludes a specific land use,in a township, i.e., the development of a mobile home park, and we reaffirm our stance that such an ordinance is unconstitutional.

Environmental Communities of Pennsylvania, Inc. (ECOP), is the owner of 62.5 acres of land in North Coventry Township, Chester County, whereon it wants to install a mobile home park. Arguing that the Township zoning ordinance failed to provide for it, ECOP filed a curative amendment requesting rezoning of the FR-21 district where the…