Zoning Board To Hear Appeal For 12 Home Development In Northampton

NORTHAMPTON TOWNSHIP, PA — The Northampton Township Zoning Hearing Board will meet Monday night to consider variances that would allow the redevelopment of a former Twining Road summer day camp with single family homes.

Twining Rd, LLC, is seeking relief to build 12 single-family homes at 115 Twining Road in the IP, Institutional/Public, and CR, Country Residential, zoning districts.

The properties are improved with structures and improvements formerly used as a recreational summer day camp. Twining proposes a residential development of detached homes, internal streets, open space, sanitary sewer pump station, off-street parking, and stormwater management
facilities.

The meeting is scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. at the Northampton Township Building at 55 Township Road.

According to the zoning hearing board appeal, Twining will be seeking variances to construct
homes in the IP zoned portion of the properties in accordance with the minimum lot size and width, maximum building coverage, minimum yards, and maximum impervious surface ratio dimensional criteria of the AR, Agricultural-Residential zoning district.

The use and dimensional criteria are currently not permitted in the IP zoning district.

Twining will also be asking for a variance to permit the residential dwellings to be constructed in the CR zoned portion of the properties in accordance with the dimensional criteria of the AR zoning district, instead of the CR zoning district.