Legal Opinion
Yaracs v. Summit Academy
Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania
Decided March 2, 2004No. 2448 C.D.2003PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION BY
Judge FRIEDMAN.
Wally Yaracs (Yaracs) appeals from the January 14, 2003, order of the Court of Common Pleas of Butler County (trial court), which sustained the preliminary objections filed by Summit Academy and C.S.C. Academy, Inc. (together, the Academy) and dismissed Yaracs’ amended petition for declaratory judgment (Petition) based on a lack of subject matter jurisdiction. We affirm.
In 1996, the Academy purchased property in Summit Township (Township) for use as a residential juvenile correction facility. At the time, the Township had no zoning ordinance pertaining to land use.…
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