NORTH WHITEHALL TWP., Pa. — A pair of local business owners have teamed up with a nonprofit public interest law firm to challenge township zoning laws they say have impeded their business.
Gene and Debbie Weierbach, who run a repair shop on their property in the township, have alleged township Supervisor Dennis Klusaritz weaponized the code to make officials investigate the Weierbachs’ decades-old business after a dispute over Klusaritz’s vehicle repairs.
A release from the Institute for Justice states Gene Weierbach has run his shop in his garage on the secluded 16-acre property on which he lives with his wife and adult son with severe autism…