SWIFT ET AL. v. Z. H. B. OF ABINGTON TWP. ET AL.

No. 1227 C.D. 1973.

16 Pa.Commw. 356 (1974)

Joseph H. Swift, et al., Appellants, v. Zoning Hearing Board of Abington Township, Appellee, and Crestmont Half-Way House, Intervening Appellee.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

November 27, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clarke F. Hess, with him Butera & Detwiler, for appellants.

Daniel B. Michie, Jr., for appellee.

Lowell A. Reed, Jr., with him Rawle & Henderson, for intervenor.

Argued October 8, 1974, before President Judge BOWMAN and Judges CRUMLISH, JR., WILKINSON, JR., MENCER, ROGERS and BLATT. Judge KRAMER did not participate.


OPINION BY JUDGE BLATT, November 27, 1974:

This is an appeal by Joseph H. Swift and other neighborhood residents (appellants) from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery County. That court, after taking additional evidence in an appeal from a ruling the Zoning Hearing Board of Abington Township (Board), sustained the conclusion of the Board that the use of property by the Crestmont Half-Way House, here an intervenor, was a "community center or similar...

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