Zoning Hearing Board
The Selinsgrove Zoning Hearing Board consists of a five member board who serve 5-year overlapping terms.
This Board meets the first Thursday of each month at 7:00 PM in the Council Chambers of the Selinsgrove Community Building, provided that there is business to conduct. In Selinsgrove Borough, the members of the Zoning Hearing Board receive no compensation.
As required by the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code, any community enacting a Zoning Ordinance must also create a Zoning Hearing Board. The primary purpose of such a board is to help assure fair and equitable application and administration of the Zoning Ordinance by hearing appeals on the Zoning Officer’s determination, Special Exception Use requests, and by granting relief from the literal enforcement of the ordinance in certain hardship situations.
Since the Board has no legislative power, it can neither make nor modify zoning policy. Neither does the Board have enforcement powers. It is a quasi-judicial body; that is, its powers are to some extent judicial in nature. The Board schedules hearings on applications and appeals that come before it, takes evidence, and issues written decisions and findings of fact and conclusions of law. It must limit its scope of activities to those permitted by the Municipalities Planning Code and by the Borough Zoning Ordinance.
A Zoning Hearing Board decision can be appealed only through the Court of Common Pleas.
Application to Appeal to the Decision of the Zoning Officer, Revised 5-28-2013
Special Exception Application 7-13-2007
Variance Application 7-13-2007
2023 Meeting Dates
The regular monthly meetings of the Selinsgrove Borough Zoning Hearing Board will be held at 7:00 p.m. in the Borough Council Chambers, 1 North High Street, Selinsgrove, PA on the first Thursday of each month, except as noted below:
January 5, 2023
February 2, 2023
March 2, 2023
April 6, 2023
May 4, 2023
June 1, 2023
July 6, 2023
August 3, 2023
September 7, 2023
October 5, 2023
November 2, 2023
December 7, 2023
Zoning Hearing Board Members
Cyril Runkle, Chairman
570-274-0556
Term expires 12/31/26
Brenda Fabian
534 Eighth Street
Selinsgrove, PA 17870
570-809-2412
Term expires 12/31/23
Denajean Praul-Gentner
Term expires 12/31/24
Edward Mann
216 West Snyder Street
Selinsgrove, PA 17870
570-898-4786
Term expires 12/31/25
Warren Kann
400 W. Pine Street
Selinsgrove, PA 17870
570-898-2877
Term expires 12/31/27
Robert Slivinski, Solicitor
111 North High Street
Selinsgrove, PA 17870
570-374-5575
Vacancy, First Alternate
Term Expires 12/31/25
Vacancy, Second Alternate
Term Expires 12/31/25