SCRUB, PIDC-FDC, CCRA v. Zoning Board of Adjustment -- Standing

 

Society Created to Reduce Urban Blight (SCRUB), Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation Food Distribution Center, Inc. (PIDC-FDC, Inc.), Center City Residents Association, Mary Tracy, Judith Eden

v.

Zoning Board of Adjustment of the City of Philadelphia, Joseph G. Procacci, Procacci Brothers Sales Corporation

729 A.2d 117 (Pa. Cmwlth. 1999)

 
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Case History

  • SCRUB appealed to the Commonwealth Court, which determined that Philadelphia laws allow any taxpayer to have standing in such a case.
  • SCRUB appealed to the Court of Common Pleas to overturn, but the ruling was upheld.
  • The Zoning Board quashed the protestor's appeal on the basis that SCRUB did not prove that they were particularly aggrieved by the granting of the variance.
  •  SCRUB protested the granting of a variance made by the Zoning Board of Adjustment that allow billboards in the Food Distribution Center.

Links

Commonwealth Court Opinion, April 5th, 1999

Press Coverage