A Common Pleas Court judge will issue a ruling in 30 days in a residential real estate developer's appeal of the Butler Township zoning hearing board's denial of a zoning permit to build 113 homes in the proposed Highfield Trails development.

Following a hearing held for arguments in the case Monday, Judge Thomas J. Doerr said he would issue an order within 30 days.

The developer, Great Living LLC, applied to the board last year to build 113 homes in a cluster development on the 39-acre site off Highfield and South Duffy roads.

The board denied the application, but later approved a second application from Great Living to construct 100 homes on the site.

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