Cooper v. Board of Adjustment

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Benjamin R. Jones,

This is an appeal in a zoning case from an order of the County Court of Allegheny County which, after the tailing of additional testimony upon an appeal from an order of the Board of Adjustment of Brent-wood Borough (Brentwood), refused the requested grant of a variance.

In 1961, Mel C. Cooper (Cooper), purchased a 2y2 acre tract of unimproved land in Brentwood Borough, Allegheny County. For eight years prior to Cooper’s acquisition thereof, this land had been zoned as a “B” residential district, a district wherein only single or two family dwellings…