Legal Opinion

Odhner v. Township of Woodward

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania

Decided November 14, 1991No. 384 C.D. 1991PublishedCited by 9 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

CRAIG, President Judge.

Hugo and Eudora Odhner appeal an order by President Judge Brown of the Court of Common Pleas of Clinton County sustaining the preliminary objections of Woodward Township and dismissing the suit for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. We affirm.

The Odhners presently own a mobilehome park located in Woodward Township. The township had enacted a flood control ordinance that requires, in relevant part, that mobilehomes be anchored and elevated at least one-and-one-half feet above the 100-year flood plain, and that no mobile-homes be placed in a designated floodway district…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Williamson County Regional Planning Commission v. Hamilton Bank of Johnson CitySupreme Court of the United States · 1985
  2. First English Evangelical Lutheran Church v. County of Los AngelesSupreme Court of the United States · 1987
  3. Cleaver v. Board of AdjustmentSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1964
  4. Jacobs v. FetzerSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1955
  5. McClimans v. Board of SupervisorsCommonwealth Court of Pennsylvania · 1987

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3Cited by9 opinions

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