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Agenda Item
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
Notice is hereby given that the Allentown City Council will consider for possible adoption an Ordinance amending the City of Allentown Zoning Map and Zoning Ordinance. This proposed amendment, of which this Notice is a summary, proposes to amend the Zoning Map and Zoning Ordinance by (i) rezoning certain parcels to B-5 Urban Commercial District, (ii) providing for a new Urban Transition Multi-Family Development use within the B-5 Urban Commercial District and the B-2 Central Business District and providing a definition of, and regulations relating to, such use, (iii) permitting Adaptive Reuse in the B-5 Urban Commercial District by Special Exception, (iv) increasing the height limitation for Hotels and Motels in the B-5 Urban Commercial District, (v) modifying parking requirements for Urban Transition Multi-Family Development, and (vi) providing for a repealer clause, a severability clause, and an effective date.
Under the authority and procedures of Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code, as amended, the City Council of the City of Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania hereby approves and enacts the following map change and amendment to the City of Allentown Zoning Ordinance:
(i) rezoning certain parcels to B-5 Urban Commercial District, (ii) providing for a new Urban Transition Multi-Family Development use within the B-5 Urban Commercial District and the B-2 Central Business District and providing a definition of, and regulations relating to, such use, (iii) permitting Adaptive Reuse in the B-5 Urban Commercial District by Special Exception, (iv) increasing the height limitation for Hotels and Motels in the B-5 Urban Commercial District, (v) modifying parking requirements for Urban Transition Multi-Family Development, and (vi) providing for a repealer clause, a severability clause, and an effective date.
That the areas on the Zoning Map of the City of Allentown, as depicted by the shaded areas on Exhibit A, be rezoned to B-5 Urban Commercial District.
That all Ordinances, Resolutions, and/or other Regulations, including but not limited to prior Zoning Maps, inconsistent with the above provisions are repealed to the extent of their inconsistency.
Effective Date. That this Ordinance will take effect ten (10) days after final passage.