Meets: 3rd Thursday 7:00 PM

Purpose:

As required by the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code (MPC), any community enacting a Zoning Ordinance must also create a Zoning Hearing Board. The primary purpose of such a board is to help assure fair and equitable application and administration of the Zoning Ordinance by hearing appeals on the Zoning Officer's determinations and by granting relief from the literal enforcement of the ordinance in certain hardship situations. Since the board has no legislative power, it can neither make nor modify zoning policy. Neither does the Zoning Hearing Board have enforcement powers. It is a quasi-judicial body; that is, its powers are to some extent judicial in nature. The board schedules hearings on applications and appeals that come before it, takes evidence, and issues written decisions with findings of fact and conclusions of law. It must limit its scope of activities to those permitted by the MPC and by the local Zoning Ordinance.

Zoning Hearing Board Application

Applicants should contact the Borough's Director of Building and Zoning before submitting an application.

ZHB Schedule 2024

Members:

  • F. William Cope
  • Helene Mathern
  • Charles Pollina
  • Scott Strasburg
  • Brian Vaughan

Counsel: