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Zoning board approves Bella’s Events space on Market Street with parking and floodplain conditions

3847221 · June 17, 2025
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Summary

The Zoning Hearing Board granted a special exception to establish an event space at 1025 Market Street, subject to coordination on parking, floodplain review and operational limits including no alcohol and a midnight end time.

The City of Harrisburg Zoning Hearing Board approved a special exception allowing Bella's Events to operate an event space at 1025 Market Street, conditioned on coordination for parking, floodplain review and adherence to the operations described in the applicant's business plan, including no on-site alcohol and operations ending no later than midnight.

Planning Director Jeffrey Knight summarized the planning bureau's review and the planning commission recommendation. The bureau categorized the proposed event space under "a use not specifically prohibited" by the zoning code and cited prior hearings where event spaces were conditioned to avoid de facto nightclubs. Knight told…

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