See Amended Petition for Curative Amendment, Exhibit T-1-A, R.R. Appellee attempts to cure these alleged exclusions by requesting in the amendment that the tract of land at issue be rezoned partially as a "D-2 Planned Business District" (permitting business uses)2 and partially as an "E Residential District" (permitting mobile homes). In their curative amendment application, Montgomery Crossing proposed that the Township remedy a de jure and de facto exclusion of both mobile homes and various large commercial establishments. On August, 10, 1993, Montgomery Crossing Associates filed a curative amendment challenge pursuant to section 10609.1(a) of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code1 before the Board of Supervisors of Lower Gwynedd Township. Montgomery Crossing is a professional land developer owning approximately 67.8 acres at the intersection of State Routes 309 and 63, and located entirely in Lower Gwynedd's "A-1 Residential District," which allows primarily single-family detached dwellings. Because the common pleas court exceeded its proper scope of review by reweighing the evidence, we reverse. NARICK, Senior Judge OPINION BY JUDGE LEADBETTER FILED: AugThe Township of Lower Gwynedd (Township) appeals the order of the Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas requiring the Township's Board of Supervisors to enact a curative amendment to its Zoning Ordinance to permit several uses which the court found to be unconstitutionally excluded. 1998 ARGUED: OctoHONORABLE DAN PELLEGRINI, Judge HONORABLE BONNIE BRIGANCE LEADBETTER, Judge HONORABLE EMIL E. TOWNSHIP OF LOWER GWYNEDD, Appellant BEFORE: : : : : : : : : NO. IN THE COMMONWEALTH COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA MONTGOMERY CROSSING ASSOCIATES, a Pennsylvania General Partnership v.
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