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CON. CENTER, INC. v. ZONING BD. OF ADJ.

2 Pa.Commw. 306 (1971)

The Conversion Center, Inc. v. Zoning Board of Adjustment of Philadelphia.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

June 7, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Albert Der Movsesian, with him Semisch & Der Movsesian, for appellant.

Carl K. Zucker, Assistant City Solicitor, with him Levy Anderson, City Solicitor, for appellee.

Edward J. David, with him Henry B. Fitzpatrick and Broderick, Schubert & Fitzpatrick, for intervening appellees.

Argued April 14, 1971, before President Judge BOWMAN and Judges CRUMLISH, JR., KRAMER, WILKINSON, JR., MANDERINO, MENCER and ROGERS.

OPINION BY JUDGE ROGERS, June 7, 1971:

This zoning case has had a long, tortuous and somewhat mysterious history.

In 1961, the appellant, the Conversion Center, Inc., a non-profit corporation founded for religious purposes, purchased a house and lot at 5840 Overbrook Avenue, Philadelphia. The ground floor of the house, built at the turn of the century, was thereafter used as a place of worship by two fundamentalist religious groups, one affiliated with the...

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