PENN TWP — No decision was rendered by the zoning hearing board Thursday, March 30, night regarding a challenge to a zoning amendment the owner of a large parcel along Route 8 said renders his land largely useless.

The three-man zoning hearing board heard testimony from an attorney for the township and one for Pacific Coast Partners, which owns 107 acres on the east side of Route 8 north of Dinnerbell Road.

Pacific Coast Partners, which is owned by Brayman Construction of Clinton Township, entered a substantive validity challenge to township ordinance 173, which repealed the original language in one chapter of the zoning ordinance dealing with planned residential developments.