Schadler v. Zoning Hearing Board of Weisenberg Township

OPINION

Justice NIGRO.

We granted allowance of appeal in this zoning case to determine whether the Commonwealth Court erred in finding that a challenge to the validity of a zoning ordinance based on procedural defects in the ordinance’s enactment was time-barred because it was filed more than thirty days after the ordinance’s nominal effective date. For the following reasons, we hold that the court did err and we therefore reverse.

Appellant Timothy J. Schadler is the owner of approximately 41 acres of land in a rural-residential zoning district in Weisenberg Township, Lehigh County (the…