PENROSE v. PHILA. Z. B. A., ET AL.

No. 1500 C.D. 1975.

24 Pa.Commw. 525 (1976)

John Penrose, Appellant v. Philadelphia Zoning Board of Adjustment, Appellee, and Children's Aid Society of Pennsylvania, Intervening Appellee.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

May 19, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. Martin Herring, with him, of counsel, Teitelman, Sagot, Herring, Jennings & Luber, for appellant.

Barbara S. Gilbert, Deputy City Solicitor, with her Raymond Kitty, Deputy City Solicitor, and Sheldon L. Albert, City Solicitor, for appellee.

Peter M. Mattoon, with him Vincent Hatton, and, of counsel, Ballard, Spahr, Andrews & Ingersoll, for intervening appellee.

Argued April 9, 1976, before Judges KRAMER, WILKINSON, JR., and BLATT, sitting as a panel of three.


OPINION BY JUDGE WILKINSON, May 19, 1976:

This is an appeal from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County which summarily affirmed a decision by the Philadelphia Zoning Board of Adjustment (Board) granting the Children's Aid Society of Pennsylvania (Society) a certificate and variance to use certain premises as a foster home and accessory administrative offices.1 Since the court did not take additional evidence, our...

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