Developing properties in Philadelphia has many challenges since this is a “row-home” city, which means the building structures are connected to one another and, thus, there is no room for error if a building structure is not properly situated on a property.

In Rosborough v. Carmel Developments, 2022 Pa. Super. Unpub. Lexis 2374 (Oct. 7, 2022), the Pennsylvania Superior Court recently applied the doctrine of consentable lines to a property dispute between a real estate developer and adjoining property owners regarding a portion of the real estate developer’s property that these neighboring property owners had been utilizing as a portion of their backyard.

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