Taliaferro v. Darby Tp. Zoning Hearing Bd.

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• stating that the zoning hearing board may reject testimony it finds lacking in credibility and may choose to believe one expert and not another
• explaining that a board’s opinion is sufficient if it provides an adequate explanation of its resolution of the factual questions involved and sets forth its reasoning in such a way to show that its decision was reasoned and not arbitrary
• reasoning that “application of the capricious disregard standard . . . [did not] warrant reversal” where “[t]he Board’s decision plainly demonstrate[d] it did not deliberately ignore the [disputed] testimony . . ., as evidenced by its express summation of [the] testimony”
• “The [zoning hearing] board is the sole judge of the credibility of witnesses and the weight afforded their testimony.”
• stating it is zoning hearing board’s function to weigh evidence
• discussing standard for demonstrating entitlement to variance relief

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