Blue Valley Quality Eggs, Inc. v. Zoning Hearing Board

COLINS, Judge.

Blue Valley Quality Eggs, Inc. (appellant) appeals an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Northampton County which affirmed the decision of the Zoning Hearing Board of Washington Township (Board) denying appellant’s application for a special exception to change from one nonconforming use to another nonconforming use.

The appellant operated a commercial chicken egg growing facility in Washington Township, which predated the 1979 enactment of the Township Zoning Ordinance. The Township’s ordinance allowed the egg growing facility to continue, since the structure and lot size…