IN RE PETITION OF DOLINGTON LAND GROUP


839 A.2d 1021 (2003)

In re PETITION OF DOLINGTON LAND GROUP and Toll Bros., Inc. from the Decision of the Zoning Hearing Board of Upper Makefield Township, Appeal of Dolington Land Group and Toll Bros., Inc. Mary Jane and Calvin Larson, Frances Bielski, Carol Stuckley, Otto Schneider and Robert Mutschler Larson, Appellees/Intervenors.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided December 30, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John A. VanLuvanee, Doylestown, for Dolington Land Group, et al.

John B. Rice, Perkasie, for Upper Makefield Twp.

William J. Bolla, Doylestown, for Upper Makefield Tp. Zoning Hearing Bd.

Thomas L. Wenger, Harrisburg, Tracy Lynn Updike, amicus curiae for Bucks County Ass'n of Tp. Supervisors.

Terry W. Clemons, Doylestown, amicus curiae for Bucks County Ass'n of Tp. Officials.

Thomas W. Scott, Harrisburg, amicus curiae for 10,000 Friends of Pennsylvania.

Robert J. Sugarman, Philadelphia, for Mary Jane and Calvin Larson, et al.

Before CAPPY, C.J., and CASTILLE, NIGRO, NEWMAN, SAYLOR, EAKIN and LAMB, JJ.


OPINION

Justice LAMB.

We granted allowance of this appeal in order to describe the application of Surrick v. Zoning Hearing Board of the Township of Upper Providence, 476 Pa. 182, 382 A.2d 105 (1977), to the assessment of the validity of a multimunicipal zoning ordinance. Such regional land use planning and regulation is now authorized by Article VIII-A of the Pennsylvania Municipalities...

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