Russian Orthodox Church Appeal

Opinion by

Me. Justice Cohen,

Appellant purchased some eighty-eight acres of land in the so-called Sunflower District of Rochester Township, Beaver County, Pennsylvania, and wishes to use this land as a cemetery.

The Township of Rochester has a zoning ordinance which divides the township into three districts. With regard to the Sunflower District, Section 100 provides, “The Sunflower District is zoned primarily for residential and agricultural uses as now esoist in the District” (Emphasis supplied). Section 201 of the ordinance sets forth more specifically the uses to which land in that district…