noting that the zoning board, as factfinder, is the sole judge of credibility with the power to resolve conflicts in the testimony and to reject even uncontradicted testimony that it finds to be lacking in credibility
How later courts described this case
- noting that the zoning board, as factfinder, is the sole judge of credibility with the power to resolve conflicts in the testimony and to reject even uncontradicted testimony that it finds to be lacking in credibility
- noting the Zoning Board is the sole judge of credibility with power to resolve conflicts in testimony and to reject even uncontradicted testimony that it finds to be lacking in credibility
- observing that Section 916.1(h) requires broadened perspective concerning availability of land uses under challenged zoning provisions and multimunicipal comprehensive plan
- “The... Board as fact-finder is the sole judge of credibility with power to resolve conflicts in the testimony and to reject even uncontradicted testimony that it finds to be lacking in credibility.”
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The opinion
CONCURRING OPINION
Justice NIGRO.
As there was evidence presented before the Zoning Hearing Board (“ZHB”) regarding the characteristics and population growth of each of the four townships included in the joint zoning ordinance (“JZO”) as well as evidence of the previous and projected population growth in all of the townships as a whole, I believe that the record is sufficient in this case to determine whether we must look at Upper Makefield Township alone or at all of the townships in the JZO together to determine whether Upper Makefield Township is in the path of growth. See ZHB Decision, 11/27/00, Fact Finding 33, 95, 96, 113-14, 157 (findings regarding Newtown Borough and Newtown Township); 115, 118-19, 144 (findings regarding Upper Makefield and Wrightstown Townships); 136-37, 139, 156 (findings regarding growth figures of all four townships). Nevertheless, I agree with the majority that we need not decide that issue today because the evidence also established that the JZO did not create an exclusionary result in all of the townships or in the CM District in Upper Makefield Township.