Hearing Date: April 23, 2025
The Upper Nazareth Township Zoning Hearing Board will hold a public hearing on 6:30 p.m. at the Upper Nazareth Township Municipal Building, 100 Newport Avenue, Nazareth, PA 18064.
The Zoning Hearing Board will meet to hear the following Zoning Appeal:
Case # 250022-ZH Interpretation of Zoning Ordinance
Applicants: James and Tara Kay Hicks 294 Moorestown Drive, Bath 18014
Location of Property subject to appeal: 3083 Penn Allen Road, Nazareth (Upper Nazareth Township), PA 18064; Parcel # K6 7 2D (the “Property)
Nature of the appeal: The Applicants filed an appeal to the Upper Nazareth Township Zoning Board as to whether the Township Zoning Officer erred in the issuance of a Notice of Violation in accordance with the Township’s Ordinances regarding the use of a detached garage on the property as an accessory apartment. The Applicants seek the reversal of the Zoning Officer’s Notice of Violation based on the following alternative grounds: (i) An interpretation that the existing use of the property’s detached garage apartment unit is a lawful preexisting nonconforming use. (ii) A variance by estoppel/vested rights/equitable estoppel as a result of the township’s knowledge and forbearance of applicant’s use of the residential apartment in the detached garage as a rental apartment unit. (iii) A use variance to permit the continued use of the detached garage residential apartment as a residential unit apartment on the property.
All interested persons are invited to attend and be heard.
Angela Strohl, Zoning Officer.
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