{"id":189808,"date":"2026-05-12T04:21:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T04:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/189808\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T04:21:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T04:21:10","slug":"proposed-7-story-apartment-building-in-allentown-gets-zoning-variances-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/189808\/","title":{"rendered":"Proposed 7-story apartment building in Allentown gets zoning variances | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. \u2013 The Allentown Zoning Hearing Board approved an appeal involving an apartment building Monday night at city hall.<\/p>\n<p>The plan, known as The Quarter, features a seven-story, 44-unit facility at 405 Walnut St. The proposal includes an interior 30-space parking garage and sidewalks along South Fourth Street. A second subdivided lot associated with the plan was not reviewed at this hearing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tnt-summary\">A building known as \u201cThe Quarter\u201d proposes 44 apartments and two floors of parking in Allentown.<\/p>\n<p>The applicant, Monte Kalsi, was granted two dimensional variances. The first involved a support beam designed for the building and its impact on the immediate intersection&#8217;s &#8220;clear sight triangle.&#8221; Officials with the applicant testified that the requested relief would not negatively impact the intersection.<\/p>\n<p>A second variance, for disturbance of steep slope, was granted approval given the issue was not regulated by the ordinance.<\/p>\n<p>Hair salon request<\/p>\n<p>A request to convert a vacant repair garage to a hair salon was continued at the applicant&#8217;s request.<\/p>\n<p>The application, slated for 436 N. Second St. was judged by the zoning officer and the board to have &#8220;not enough accurate information&#8221; involving the property.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. \u2013 The Allentown Zoning Hearing Board approved an appeal involving an apartment building Monday night at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[119,12681,153,155,154,84600,43151,15115],"class_list":["post-189808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-zoning-hearing-board","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-monte-kalsi","tag-the-quarter","tag-walnut-street"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189808","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=189808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}