Purdy v. Hayt

How courts have described this case

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• ruling that the exclusive jurisdiction of the MPC prevented a landowner from compelling the issuance of a building permit by challenging the substantive validity of a zoning ordinance in a mandamus action before the Commonwealth Court
• ruling that the exclusive jurisdiction of the MPC prevented a landowner from compelling the issuance of a building permit by challenging the substantive validity of a zoning ordinance in a mandamus action before the Commonwealth Court
• mandamus inappropriate to compel issuance of building permit where appeal to zoning board of adjustment available
• mandamus inappropriate to compel issuance of building permit where appeal to zoning board of adjustment available
• where plaintiff’s right to building permit is contingent upon first invalidating zoning ordinance under which permit was denied, the right to the permit is not .sufficiently clear to constitute a basis for mandamus action

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).