B & B Shoe Products Co. v. Zoning Hearing Board

Opinion by

Judge Blatt,

This is an appeal from an Order of the Court of Common Pleas of Lancaster County which reversed the Manheim Borough Zoning Hearing Board’s (Board) denial of an application for a special exception so that the B & B Shoe Products. Company (B & B) could expand its nonconforming use.

B & B proposed to build an addition to its shoe manufacturing plant located in a district which, after the business had been established, had been zoned R-3 Residential. As a lawful nonconforming use, B & B needed the Board’s approval to expand, as prescribed by Section 1801(1) of the Manheim…