NORTH WHITEHALL TWP., Pa. — A plan for a two-building, 20-unit apartment complex along Quarry Road got unanimous preliminary final approval from the township planning commission Tuesday.
The project will go before the township board of supervisors at 7 p.m. July 7 at Lehigh Carbon Community College Community Services Center in Schnecksville.
The project, formally known as Coplay Apartments, consists of two low-rise apartment buildings, each containing 10 apartments, on a vacant three-acre lot at 2260 Quarry St.
The development plan by Westeros LLC also lists 50 parking spaces on the site.
"Nothing’s changing much to affect the proposal.”Dave Alban, engineer, North Whitehall Township
The project in the Village Residential District is consistent and compliant with township zoning ordinances, Zoning Officer Aubrie Miller said.
The planning commission on Tuesday heard a presentation from Lewis Rauch, engineering general manager of Lehigh Engineering Associates Inc.
After outlining the project, Rauch requested and got a deferral for installation of curbing along the apartment frontage on Quarry Street.
In the future, and as directed by the board of supervisors by a 5-4 vote, the property owners would be required to pay for such curbing.
“This is pretty much the plan you see now as the one you’ve seen before,” Dave Alban, a township engineer, told the commission. "Nothing’s changing much to affect the proposal.”
Tractor-trailer zoning request
A landowner’s plan to park tractor-trailers on their property at Mauch Chunk Road has been advanced to the township’s zoning hearing board meeting in July.
A maximum of 13 tractor trailers would be parked at 4461 Mauch Chunk Road.
The application involves a use that, in part, currently exists: a residence, a fire apparatus repair facility and proposed truck parking.
The application to allow tractor-trailers proposes to change one of the three nonconforming uses from non-permitted use to permitted use.
