Darling v. Zoning Board of Adjustment

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Linn,

This appeal involves the construction of the Philadelphia Zoning Ordinance approved August 10, 1933, passed pursuant to the enabling act of May 6, 1929, P. L. 1551, 53 P.S. 3822. In such appeals our review is limited to seeing that the proceeding is free from mistake of law: Veltri Zoning Case, 355 Pa. 135, 49 A. 2d 369; Fleming v. Prospect Park Board, 318 Pa. 582, 178 A. 813.

The property involved is a one-story building described as No. 515 West Pelham Road, Philadelphia. It is in a district zoned as “B Residential.” Joseph Darling applied for and received a…