Cicchiello v. Bloomsburg Zoning Hearing Board

KELLEY, Judge.

The Town of Bloomsburg (town) appeals from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Columbia County (trial court) which ordered the Zoning Hearing Board (board) to issue a permit for a take-out pizza service to Joan Cicchiello (landowner). We reverse.

In 1985, landowner purchased a property located at 500 East Second Street in Bloomsburg. The property is improved with two buildings, one of which, a brick structure located immediately adjacent to the campus of Bloomsburg University, is the subject of the present dispute. Some time prior to landowner’s purchase, a restaurant or…