Appeal of Freedom Road Zoning Moves on to Butler County Court

While Cranberry’s zoning hearing board in December denied , the case isn’t over yet.

Wood has filed an appeal of the board’s decision with the Butler County Court of Common Pleas. A court date has yet to be set for the appeal.

Wood owns a home and a small electronics retail store on Freedom Road. In his appeal filed with Cranberry’s zoning hearing board, Wood claimed his land had been singled out from the properties around it for different treatment.

His property is zoned residential while the property located directly across the street from it is zoned for commercial use, according to his appeal. In his filing, Wood said this showed a lack of coherence in the districting along Freedom Road and that the commercial designations were meted out in a haphazard manner.  

The property across the street near Wood’s home includes the Freedom Square shopping plaza and the grocery store.

Township manager Jerry Andree has said this property previously was a park-and-ride lot owned by the Regional Industrial Development Corporation of Southwestern Pennsylvania and already was zoned for commercial use.

The original hearing before Cranberry’s zoning hearing board took place over the summer.