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Board should have granted variance for house on undersized lot.

A township's zoning hearing board improperly rejected a landowner's request for variances needed to build a house on a nonconforming, undersized lot, the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court has ruled (Ruddy v. Springfield Township Zoning Hearing Board, No. 1377 CD 2005, April 6, 2006).

In 1996, Donald Ruddy bought a 0.32-acre vacant lot in a rural area of the township at a tax sale for $560. The lot is trapezoidal in shape, 200 feet deep, with 80 feet of frontage and a 60-foot rear lot line. It was created by a subdivision in 1950, long before the township adopted a zoning ordinance. The ordinance, enacted in 1971, put the property in a Resource Protection District, where the ...

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