Kennedy v. Upper Milford Township Zoning Hearing Board

OPINION

Justice LAMB.

We granted allowance of appeal in this case in order to clarify the relationship between the “open meeting” requirement of the Commonwealth’s Sunshine Act1 and *1106the quasi-judicial deliberative responsibilities of local zoning hearing boards.2 We hold that quasi-judicial deliberations are a proper subject of private executive sessions.

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission (“Commission”) as the owner of a small parcel of land3 improved since the 1950’s with a radio communications tower and located on South Mountain in Upper Milford Township (“Township”), Lehigh…