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Allentown zoning board approves warehouse use for 839 South Front Street with loading and code conditions
Summary
The zoning board granted an interpretation/use variance allowing Patrick Hoops to operate a warehouse at 839 South Front Street, relying on a 2003 approval and adding conditions that limit outdoor storage, require loading/unloading on-site or inside the building, and require compliance with city codes.
The Allentown Zoning Hearing Board on Dec. 1 approved relief allowing a warehouse use at 839 South Front Street, finding the building’s configuration and a prior 2003 board decision supported the requested use and imposing conditions to limit neighborhood impacts.
Naomi Centrella, attorney for the applicant, said her client, Patrick Hoops, is the equitable owner through HRH Properties LLC and seeks either an interpretation that the 2003 approval continues to allow warehouse use or, in the alternative, a use variance. Centrella presented an agreement of sale and a denial letter from the city dated Sept. 10, 2025. Hoops testified he purchased the property to operate a two‑level warehouse, that all storage would be indoors and…
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