In Re: ZHB of Cheltenham Twp 12-16-15 Decision

JUSTICE WECHT, Dissenting

"Every statute shall be construed, if possible, to give effect to all its provisions."

*8571 Pa.C.S. § 1921(a). I cannot join the Majority, because in considering the two statutes at issue in this case, it disregards a material textual asymmetry between the statutes that speaks directly to the question upon which we granted review and, in my view, compels a contrary result.1

At issue in this case is the interplay between the statutory process that applies to subdivision plan (or "plat") applications submitted to a governing body and the discrete statutory process that…