Eighteenth & Rittenhouse Associates v. Zoning Board of Adjustment

Opinion by

Judge Crumlish, Jr.,

This is a zoning appeal by Eighteenth & Rittenhouse Associates (Appellant) from an order of the court of common pleas affirming the Zoning Board of Adjustment’s (ZBA) refusal to grant a variance for the use,1 of the premises, 250 South 18th Street (“250”). “250” is located in an area zoned “R-16” Residential where the proposed offices and savings and loan uses are not permitted.

*556In 1970, Appellant’s predecessor in interest received a variance from the court of common pleas for a twenty-seven unit apartment house with four non-conforming doctors’ offices and a real…