Hamilton v. Zoning Hearing Board

Opirior by

Judge Blatt,

Seven adjoining landowners (appellants) appeal here from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of *453Montgomery County which affirmed a grant of a variance by the Whitemarsh Township Zoning Hearing Board to Lafayette Hill Professional Building, Inc. (Lafayette).

Lafayette’s lot is an irregular tract, roughly a trapezium, consisting of 1.36 acres which fronts on Germantown Pike. It is presently entirely undeveloped and slopes downward from front to rear. The road frontage is about 200 feet and the mean distance to the rear of the lot is about 375 feet. The lot is divided by a…