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Commission grants Walnut Street subdivision waiver with conditions amid neighborhood concerns
Summary
Commissioners approved a waiver allowing subdivision of 1420 Walnut Street — where the applicant plans to convert the front Victorian into four apartments and build a two-family rear building — conditioned on documentation of financial hardship, addressing city comments, and returning to the commission for plan review.
The Allentown Planning Commission voted to grant a waiver for 1420 Walnut Street that will allow the parcel to be subdivided so the existing Victorian front structure can be converted to four apartments and a detached two-family building constructed on the rear lot facing Hickory Street.
Engineer John Koutsource, representing the owner, said the property has been vacant for about 20 years and that a…
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