Court Opinion

ID: 9649073
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 14:41:34.881965+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:12:07.398153
License: Public Domain

CONCURRING OPINION

Justice NIGRO.
As there was evidence presented before the Zoning Hearing Board (“ZHB”) regarding the characteristics and population growth of each of the four townships included in the joint zoning ordinance (“JZO”) as well as evidence of the previous and projected population growth in all of the townships as a whole, I believe that the record is sufficient in this case to determine whether we must look at Upper Makefield Township alone or at all of the townships in the JZO together to determine whether Upper Makefield Township is in the path of growth. See ZHB Decision, 11/27/00, Fact Finding 33, 95, 96, 113-14, 157 (findings regarding Newtown Borough and Newtown Township); 115, 118-19, 144 (findings regarding Upper Makefield and Wrightstown Townships); 136-37, 139, 156 (findings regarding growth figures of all four townships). Nevertheless, I agree with the majority that we need not decide that issue today because the evidence also established that the JZO did not create an exclusionary result in all of the townships or in the CM District in Upper Makefield Township.