Society Created to Reduce Urban Blight v. Zoning Board of Adjustment

OPINION BY

Judge FRIEDMAN.

Society Created to Reduce Urban Blight (SCRUB) and Mary Cawley Tracy appeal from the December 11, 2003, order of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia *732County (trial court), which affirmed the decision of the Zoning Board of Adjustment (Board) of the City of Philadelphia (City) to grant use variances for the erection of a non-accessory outdoor advertising sign. We reverse.

On June 20, 2002, Oregon Avenue Associates (Oregon) applied for a permit to erect one free-standing, double-faced, illuminated, non-accessory outdoor advertising sign measuring twenty feet by…