SOC. TO REDUCE URBAN BLIGHT v. ZONING BD.


804 A.2d 116 (2002)

SOCIETY CREATED TO REDUCE URBAN BLIGHT, Mary Crawley Tracy, Old City Civic Association, and Kensington South Neighborhood Advisory Council, v. The ZONING BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT, The City of Philadelphia, Callowhill Center Associates and Metro Lights, LLC. Appeal of Callowhill Center Associates and Metro Lights, LLC.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided July 11, 2002.

Reargument/Reconsideration Denied August 21, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Luther E. Weaver, III, Philadelphia, for appellants.

Samuel C. Stretton, West Chester, for appellees.

Before COLINS, President Judge, and McGINLEY, Judge, and SIMPSON, Judge.


OPINION BY Judge SIMPSON.

Callowhill Center Associates and Metro Lights, LLC (Applicants) appeal an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County (trial court) reversing the grant of a variance to erect an outdoor advertising sign by the Zoning Board of Adjustment of the City of Philadelphia (Board). We affirm.

In 1999, Applicants erected a 65 foot by 100 foot non-accessory sign on the wall of a building located on North 7th Street in Philadelphia...

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