A zoning board hearing Monday night that could have determined the fate of a proposed data center in south Allentown has been postponed.<\/p>\n
The hearing concerned a legal zoning appeal from Camelot for Children, a nonprofit organization that helps chronically and terminally ill children, which is located near the proposed data center on Emmaus Avenue.<\/p>\n
According to an email from Allentown zoning supervisor Michael Handzo, the city received a \u201clate breaking request\u201d from both parties to postpone it to a later date, which has not been determined.<\/p>\n
Anthony Maras, a spokesperson for the developer, Quantm LLC, confirmed that attorneys for both Camelot and Quantm mutually agreed to postpone the hearing, but declined to comment further.<\/p>\n
Quantm LLC, a Philadelphia data center development company, has submitted plans to convert a 224,000-square-foot warehouse building at 2401 W. Emmaus Ave. into a data center.<\/p>\n
The proposed data center is still awaiting a vote from the city\u2019s planning commission that would allow developers to begin construction, but the city late last year determined that a data center may be treated as a \u201cpermitted-by-right\u201d use in the I-3 zoning district, where the building is located, saying it is \u201cclosely allied\u201d to manufacturing usage, which was permitted under the zoning rules in effect at the time.<\/p>\n
However, in a formal legal appeal dated July 6, Kevin Fogerty, an attorney representing Camelot, argues that there is a \u201cgross disparity\u201d between data center and manufacturing uses, so the city\u2019s determination that a data center is allowed by right at 2401 W. Emmaus Ave. is inappropriate and incorrect.<\/p>\n
Reporter Lindsay Weber can be reached at Liweber@mcall.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A zoning board hearing Monday night that could have determined the fate of a proposed data center in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,182,139,432],"class_list":["post-275958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275958","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=275958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}