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Zoning board grants dimensional variance to Downtown Metro LLC for site-triangle at N. Eleventh and Court streets
Summary
Allentown Zoning Hearing Board approved a dimensional variance allowing Downtown Metro LLC to eliminate a required site-clearance triangle at the corner of North Eleventh and Court streets to build a five‑story, 43‑unit apartment building with ground‑floor retail.
The Zoning Hearing Board of Allentown City on June 30 approved a dimensional variance allowing Downtown Metro LLC to eliminate a required site‑clearance triangle at the corner of North Eleventh and Court streets, clearing the way for a five‑story, 43‑unit apartment building with about 1,026 square feet of ground‑floor retail.
The applicant, represented by attorney Dennis McCarthy, asked the board for a dimensional variance from "section 6 sixty‑thirty 7 A" of the zoning ordinance (described in the record as the ordinance provision on site clearance near intersections) to remove the required sight‑triangle at the southeast corner of North Eleventh and Court Street. McCarthy and witnesses told the board the…
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