Hopkins v. North Hopewell Township Zoning Hearing Board

LORD, Senior Judge.

Thomas and Karen Hopkins appeal a common pleas court order vacating a determination of the North Hopewell Township zoning board. We affirm the common pleas court’s decision.

The Hopkinses own a forty-six acre farm in the agricultural zone of the township. On it there is a farmhouse that predates enactment of the township zoning ordinance. The record indicates that, in May of 1991, Thomas Hopkins filed an application for a building permit to construct a new building elsewhere on the tract as a residence. The permit application indicated that Hopkins would convert the existing…