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Zoning Bulletin February 10, 2017 I Volume 11 I Issue 3 <br />Looking at those legal principals, here, the court was satisfied that <br />the plain or ordinary meaning of "house of worship" permitted and <br />encompassed the Church's proposed use of housing homeless <br />individuals. <br />See also: Community Synagogue v. Bates, 1 N.Y.2d 445, 154 <br />. N. Y. S.2d 15, 136 N.E.2d 488 (1956). <br />See also: Western Presbyterian Church v. Board of Zoning Adjust- <br />ment of District of Columbia, 862 E Supp. 538 (D.D. C. 1994). <br />Proceedings After objectors <br />appeal zoning decision, city <br />maintains appeal is untimely <br />Objectors say city's failure to issue decision in <br />writing means time for appeal never <br />commenced <br />Citation: First Avenue Partners v. City of Pittsburgh Planning Com- <br />mission, 2016 WL 7176946 (Pa. Commw Ct. 2016) <br />PENNSYLVANIA (12/09/16)-This case addressed the issue of <br />whether a planning commission's approval without a written decision <br />was sufficient to commence the 30-day appeal period in which an ag- <br />grieved individual must take their appeal. <br />The Background/Facts: Forza Fort Pitt, Inc. ("Forza") owned <br />property (the "Property") in the City of Pittsburgh (the "City"). In <br />2009, Forza applied for a Project Development Plan (the "2009 Ap- <br />plication") with the City's Planning Commission (the "Planning <br />Commission"). Forza's application sought approval to construct a <br />seven -story, 107-room hotel on the Property. At a public hearing on <br />March 8, 2011, the Planning Commission approved the 2009 Applica- <br />tion subject to certain conditions. The Planning Commission did not <br />issue a written decision of its approval of the 2009 Application. <br />Subsequently, in 2013, after the City's Planning Department (the <br />"Planning Department") requested certain design changes to Forza's <br />proposed building, Forza submitted a new Project Development Plan <br />(the "2013 Application"). The Planning Commission approved the <br />2013 Application without a written decision. <br />First Avenue Partners, James D. Bolander and Mona A. Bolander, <br />Barbara C. Johnstone, William R. Hartz, Paul Richard Bernthal, <br />Christopher Ragland and April M. Ragland, Mary Ellen Purtell, and <br />© 2017 Thomson Reuters 9 <br />