The suit also alleges that the supervisors enacted nuisance legislation designed to discourage development and met secretly to discuss their plans in violation of state law. The suit charges that officials withheld evidence favorable to the developer at an application hearing and misused escrow funds. In April 1999, Toll negotiated an agreement of sale to purchase the 76-acre property. Since then, Toll has presented two development plans before the supervisors. The first was denied shortly after the township passed an amendment to the zoning ordinance.
Toll argues that the amendment was designed to make the planned development impossible.
Toll has appealed both decisions to Chester County Court.