Case Name: LATROBE SPEEDWAY, INC. and Chester M. Aretta, Respondents, v. ZONING HEARING BOARD OF UNITY TOWNSHIP, WESTMORELAND COUNTY, Pennsylvania
Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1997-11-19
Citations: 701 A.2d 1358
Docket Number: 
Parties: LATROBE SPEEDWAY, INC. and Chester M. Aretta, Respondents, v. ZONING HEARING BOARD OF UNITY TOWNSHIP, WESTMORELAND COUNTY, Pennsylvania.
Judges: 
Reporter: West's Atlantic Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 701
Pages: 1358–1359

Head Matter:
LATROBE SPEEDWAY, INC. and Chester M. Aretta, Respondents, v. ZONING HEARING BOARD OF UNITY TOWNSHIP, WESTMORELAND COUNTY, Pennsylvania.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
Nov. 19, 1997.
William C. Stillwagon, Greensburg, for petitioner.

Opinion:
ORDER
PER CURIAM:
AND NOW, this 19th day of NOVEMBER, 1997, the Respondent's Motion to Quash is DENIED. The Petition for Allowance of Appeal is hereby GRANTED, as to the following issue:
1. Whether the Commonwealth Court erred in reversing the Court of Common Pleas' determination that before considering a question of abandonment, the threshold issue was whether the landowner established that the property had nonconforming use status at the time the relevant zoning ordinance took effect.
2. Whether the Commonwealth Court, in finding that the Board improperly placed the burden of proof on Respondents, itself improperly placed both the burden of proof and the burden of persuasion on Petitioner in reversing the Board's decision.