Wynnewood Civic Ass'n v. Lower Merion Township

Opinion by

Woodside, J.,

This appeal involves a dispute over the proper procedure to be followed in testing the legality of a zoning ordinance.

On December 8, 1952, the Commissioners of Lower Merion Township, a township of the first class in Montgomery County, enacted an ordinance amending the township’s zoning ordinance of 1927 by a vote of 9 to 4 (one Commissioner abstaining). The ordinance changed the designation of a certain tract of land of approximately 15 acres from an “R 3 Residential Dis triet” and “R 4 Residential District”, to an “R 7 Residential District”. Under the township’s zoning…