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Zoning board approves Abduche Properties conversion and parking/lot-area variances at S. 5th Street with conditions
Summary
The Allentown Zoning Hearing Board approved variances allowing Abduche Properties to convert existing structures at 1935–1949 S. 5th Street into additional apartments, finding the relief to be the minimum necessary and subjecting the approval to planning commission recommendations and a city inspection before final certificate of occupancy.
The Allentown Zoning Hearing Board on Oct. 27 approved Abduche Properties’ appeal and special-use/variance request to convert existing buildings at 1935–1949 S. 5th Street and to add dwelling units, granting lot-area-per-dwelling-unit and parking variances subject to agreed conditions.
Architect Stuart Galk testified that a survey-based recalculation shows the parcel measures 36,574 square feet, approximately 6,152 square feet larger than previously recorded — a roughly 20% increase in lot area. That change reduced the lot-area variance the applicant needs from the previously…
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