Peters Township v. Dotter

Opinion by

Judge Blatt,

This case comes here on appeal from a decision of the Court of Common Pleas of Washington County, which held that the appellants were in violation of a township Zoning Ordinance and Building Code.

The appellants own property in the township zoned R-l Residential-Agricultural, on which they have erected and operated a small “personal care boarding home”, housing eight elderly residents along with a full-time resident manager, his wife and their two children.1 After receiving an adverse decision2 from a township zoning officer, they appealed to the Township Zoning Board…