BETHLEHEM TWP., Pa.\u00a0\u2013 The conditional use hearing to turn the old Bethlehem Drive-In along Easton Avenue into an apartment complex has been put off until November.<\/p>\n
On Monday, representatives for Wind-Drift Real Estate Associates of Bethlehem made the request for a continuance of its conditional use hearing to the Bethlehem Township Board of Commissioners.<\/p>\n
The new hearing date has been scheduled for November 15.<\/p>\n
David Ronca, partner at Wind-Drift, has proposed a 220-unit garden apartment complex at 3022 Easton Avenue, the site of the former Bethlehem Drive-In.<\/p>\n
Plans for what the developer is calling Thirty22 Place include seven 28-unit buildings which would each be three to four stories tall, as well as one three-story, 24-unit building; a 4,000-square-foot community center; and a pool on the site.<\/p>\n
The Easton Avenue complex would sit between Hampshire and Butztown roads.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Wind-Drift would still need approvals from the township’s zoning hearing board for the proposed four-story buildings, each with a 50-foot height. Municipal code only allows for three-story buildings currently with a maximum height of 36 feet. Additionally, the developer is requesting a reduction in the number of parking spaces required under municipal code.<\/p>\n
The Ronca family has a history of development projects in Bethlehem. Lewis Ronca is one of the developers for the proposed project on the site of the former Martin Tower.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM TWP., Pa.\u00a0\u2013 The conditional use hearing to turn the old Bethlehem Drive-In along Easton Avenue into an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,61664,155,154,1994,15916,3811,75384,75383],"class_list":["post-167241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-drive-in","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-bethlehem-township","tag-bethlehem-township-board-of-commissioners","tag-david-ronca","tag-lewis-ronca","tag-wind-drift-real-estate-associates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}