NEWTOWN SQUARE EAST v. TOWNSHIP OF NEWTOWN

Not in Sources.

101 A.3d 37 (2014)

NEWTOWN SQUARE EAST, L.P., Appellant v. TOWNSHIP OF NEWTOWN, Appellee BPG Real Estate Investors-Straw Party-1, L.P., BPG Real Estate Investors-Straw Party-II, Campus Investors Office B, L.P., Campus Investors 25, L.P., Campus Investors 1 Building, L.P., Campus Investors H Building, L.P., Campus Investors D Building, L.P., Campus Investors Cottages, L.P., Campus Investors Office 2B, L.P., Ellis Preserve Owners Assoc., Inc., Kelly Preserve Owners Assoc., Inc., Cottages at Ellis Owners Assoc., Inc., Genber/Management Campus LLC, Berwind Property Group, Ltd., Executive Benefit Partnership Campus L.P., Management Partnership-Benefit and Ellis Acquisition L.P., Intervenors. Newtown Square East, L.P., c/o National Realty Corporation, Appellant v. Zoning Hearing Board of Newtown Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, Appellee NEWTOWN TOWNSHIP, Intervenor BPG Real Estate Investors-Straw Party-1, L.P., BPG Real Estate Investors-Straw Party-II, Campus Investors Office B, L.P., Campus Investors 25, L.P., Campus Investors 1 Building, L.P., Campus Investors H Building, L.P., Campus Investors D Building, L.P., Campus Investors Cottages, L.P., Campus Investors Office 2b, L.P., Ellis Preserve Owners Assoc., Inc., Kelly Preserve Owners Assoc., Inc., Cottages at Ellis Owners Assoc., Inc., Genber/Management Campus LLC, Berwind Property Group, Ltd., Executive Benefit Partnership Campus L.P., Management Partnership-Benefit and Ellis Acquisition L.P., Intervenors. Newtown Square East, L.P., c/o National Realty Corporation, Appellant v. Zoning Hearing Board of Newtown Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, Appellee Newtown Township, Intervenor BPG Real Estate Investors-Straw Party-1, L.P., BPG Real Estate Investors-Straw Party-II, Campus Investors Office B, L.P., Campus Investors 25, L.P., Campus Investors 1 Building, L.P., Campus Investors H Building, L.P., Campus Investors D Building, L.P., Campus Investors Cottages, L.P., Campus Investors Office 2B, L.P., Ellis Preserve Owners Assoc., Inc., Kelly Preserve Owners Assoc., Inc., Cottages at Ellis Owners Assoc., Inc., Genber/Management Campus LLC, Berwind Property Group, Ltd., Executive Benefit Partnership Campus L.P., Management Partnership-Benefit and Ellis Acquisition L.P., Intervenors.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided September 24, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis M. Kodumal, Esq. , Vincent B. Mancini, Esq. , Law Offices of Vincent B. Mancini & Associates, Media, for Zoning Hearing Board of Newtown Township.

Arlin M. Adams, Esq. , Monica Nicole Clarke Piatt, Esq. , Nancy L. Winkelman, Esq. , Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis, L.L.P., Philadelphia, Joseph A. Damico, Jr., Esq. , Charles Graham Miller, Esq. , John W. Nilon Jr., Esq. , Petrikin, Wellman, Damico, Brown & Pestosa, P.C., Media, for Newtown Square East, L.P.

Richard C. Sokorai, Esq. , High Swartz LLP, Norristown, for Newtown Township.

Ronald M. Agulnick, Esq. , for Homebuilders Association of Chester and Delaware Counties.

David James Bird, Esq. , Reed Smith, LLP, Pittsburgh, for O'Neill Properties Group, L.P., the Brickstone Co., Korman Co., and Phil. Real Estate Council.

Mark A. Sereni, Esq. , DiOrio & Sereni, L.L.P., Media, for Marple Newtown School District.

Robert L. Byer, Esq. , Pittsburgh, Robert McCarthy Palumbos, Esq. , Duane Morris LLP, Philadelphia, Marc B. Kaplin, Esq. , Kaplin Stewart Meloff Reiter & Stein, P.C., Blue Bell , Andrew J. Reilly, Esq. , Swartz Campbell, L.L.C., Media, for BPG Real Estate Investors and BPG.


Justice McCAFFERY.

On July 13, 2009, pursuant to enabling legislation in Article VII of the Municipalities Planning Code1 ("MPC"), the Newtown Township Board of Supervisors ("Township Board") enacted a Planned Residential Development Ordinance ("PRD Ordinance").2 This appeal involves challenges to the validity of that ordinance and to the approval of a Tentative PRD Plan pursuant to it.

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