Township of West Deer v. Bowman

Opinion by

Judge Rogers,

The appellant, the Township of West Deer, Allegheny County, adopted a zoning ordinance in 1966 by which a property owned by the appellee, Frank Heck, Jr., and *580occupied as a residence by the family of Heck’s son-in-law, the appellee, Robert H. Bowman, was placed in a zoning district in which only residential uses were permitted.

In 1968, Bowman made improvements to a shed on the property, in which he first went into the business of repairing motorized lawn equipment and later took on for sale from the premises minibikes, chain saws and lawn equipment. Bowman seems to have…