Odd Fellows' Home of Pennsylvania v. Bd. of Tax Assessment Appeals of Dauphin County

In Odd Fellows' Home of Pennsylvania v. Bd. of Tax Assessment Appeals of Dauphin County, 77 Pa. Commw. 453, 466 A.2d 256 (Pa. Cmwlth. 1983), the Court upheld the denial of a request by a purely public charity to exempt 66.4 acres of unimproved land held for future expansion and as a buffer for the neighborhood, stating that the facts did not support the need for a buffer, and research revealed "no case in which a charity has been permitted to hold vacant land on a tax exempt basis for purposes of future construction or expansion of facilities." Id. at 258.