BETHLEHEM, Pa. – Bethlehem City Council voted 5-2 Tuesday night to send a proposed ordinance to rezone a property on the city's Southside to its community development committee for further review and discussion.
Councilmembers Wandalyn Enix and Grace Crampsie Smith opposed sending the bill back to committee.
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The site of 240 apartments proposed where IQE Plc, a U.K.-based maker of semiconductor wafers, currently sits.
WFMZ-TV / Jeff Ward
The proposal on the table is to rezone the property at 119 Technology Drive to CB-Central Business zoning from the current IR-Industrial Redevelopment zoning to make way for a proposed development of a 240-unit, six-story apartment building.
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