§208-2708. Jurisdiction of the Zoning Hearing Board.

The Zoning Hearing Board shall have exclusive jurisdiction to hear and render final adjudications on the following matters:

A.         Substantive challenges to the validity of this Chapter or Chapter 174, Subdivision and Land Development, except those challenges brought before the Board of Supervisors pursuant to §§609.1 and 916.1(a)(2) of the MPC.

B.         Challenges to the validity of this Chapter or Chapter 174, Subdivision and Land Development, raising procedural questions or alleged defects in the process of enactment or adoption, which challenges shall be raised by an appeal taken in the time and manner provided under applicable law. 

C.         Appeals from the determination of the Zoning Officer, including, but not limited to, the granting or denial of any permit, or failure to act on the application therefor, the issuance of any enforcement notice or the registration or refusal to register any nonconforming use, structure or lot.

D.         Appeals from the Zoning Officer’s preliminary determination under §916.2 of the MPC.

E.         Applications for variances from the terms of this Chapter.

F.         Appeals from the determination of the Zoning Officer or Township Engineer in the administration of this Chapter or any provision thereof with reference to sedimentation and erosion control and stormwater management insofar as the same rate to relate to development not involving applications under Chapter 174, Subdivision and Land Development.

G.         Appeals from the determination of the Zoning Officer with reference to the administration of floodplain provisions of Article 1400 of this Chapter.

 

Last Updated on September 29, 2008
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