Thompson v. ZON. HEAR. BD. OF HORSHAM TP.

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• holding that a standing claim was waived due to a failure to raise it before the zoning hearing board
• concluding that because objector “appeared and participated as a party before the [zoning board] without objection by Landowner, he necessarily is aggrieved by the [zoning board’s] adverse decision and has standing to appeal that decision to the trial court”
• stating that 42 Pa. C.S. §702(b) provides an appellate court, here the trial court, with the discretion to hear interlocutory appeals
• noting that “[g]enerally, a party is aggrieved when he has an adverse, direct, immediate and substantial interest in a decision as opposed to a remote and speculative interest”
• applying the MPC to hold that a party who participated before the board without objection was necessarily aggrieved by the board’s adverse decision and therefore had standing to appeal
• “[W]hen a person is permitted to appear in opposition to an application to a zoning hearing board and permitted to cross-examine witnesses and present evidence, he or she is a party to those proceedings.”

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