Simmers v. Rorer

Opinion by

Judge Crumlish, Jr.,

This appeal is from an Order of the Bucks County Court of Common Pleas, dated April 5, 1973, which reversed the Zoning Hearing Board of Upper Makefield Township (Board) which denied Borer’s (Appellee) application for a special exception to use a portion of his land as a private airstrip exclusively for his own airplane.

Our reading of the record, which we find supportive of the findings of fact drafted by the Board, as adopted and supplemented by the lower court, reveals that Appellee purchased 137 acres of land and residence, known as Hunter’s Hill Farm, located…