Court Opinion

ID: 9878175
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-27 16:44:15.433625+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:47:32.965247
License: Public Domain

*1247CONCURRING OPINION BY
JUDGE BROBSON
I join in the majority’s disposition of this appeal. Specifically, I agree that neither the First Class City Home Rule Act1 nor the Philadelphia Zoning Code confers standing on an individual councilperson to challenge the Philadelphia Zoning Board of Adjustment’s grant of a variance. I write separately because I can fathom a circumstance where the Philadelphia City Council (City Council) may not be nimble enough to act as a body within the time constraints for challenging such a decision. In that situation, it may be adequate for a councilperson to initiate a challenge on behalf of City Council, with prompt formal action by City Council thereafter ratifying the appeal.

. Act of April 21, 1949, P.L. 665, as amended, 53 P.S. §§ 13101-13157.