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Apartments backedTwo-story addition approved in Doylestown]second floors would remain of- therefore, by the applicant!was inappropriate. ’The Doylestown Zoning Hearing Board has approved a request for a variancenecessarv to build a two-storv% 0*addition to a two-story building on N. Main Street. The first floor is an office and the second contains a resdien-tial unit.The applicant, Artshell Inc., wants to use the first floor of the addition for office purposes and the second floor for an apartment.The variance was necessarv because the lot on which the applicant plans to build is smaller than that allowed for building in the office district of the borough's zoning code The variance, read the board's written decision, would not alter the essential character of the neighborhood or district nor substantiallyOrimpair the appropriate use of development of any adjacent property nor be detrimental to the public welfare.”Among the conditions imposed by the board for the variance, though are that the lot may not be further subdivided In addition, no windows will be permitted on the building site overlooking neighbor's property.A request to convert part of a three-storv office buildingon E. State Street into apartments also was approved even though board members noted the section of the zoning code cited by the applicant for approval was inappropriate Farahmand H. Vikoren and her husband Harold, a borough lawyer, want to change the rear wing and the third floor of the building into two apartments. The first andfices.The section of the borough code they cited in theirapplication dealt with converting existing dwelling units into additional dwelling units, not converting an existing of-But the zoners found the applicantion applied under another section of the zoning code dwellings in combination with existing offices in zoning district where the building is located It was on this basis that the board approved thefice building back to its original residential use as they asserted The section used.application.Givt us T in your coiling, woll givo you control oir conditioning.A coup!# of 2 Openings in the comers of yourCfDingi, o f#w incontpktout o»r supply ducts and a hordly noticeoble condensing unit outsid# — that's about oil it takes with Space Pok* cooling system by Dunhom-bush What's more, we con do the whole installation fob in loss time than a conventional system Costs less thon you'd think, tooCall us for a trot astimata,\/jDUNHAM-BUSHrater's electric service inc.33 UNION ST., DOYLESTOWN, PA348-4474•ANK FINANCING AVAILABLE
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Doylestown Daily Intelligencer
Doylestown, Pennsylvania, US
Fri, Jul 30, 1976
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