{"id":130073,"date":"2024-05-04T10:23:33","date_gmt":"2024-05-04T14:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=130073"},"modified":"2024-05-04T10:23:33","modified_gmt":"2024-05-04T14:23:33","slug":"siegel-releases-statement-in-support-of-community-feedback-for-allentowns-rezoning-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=130073","title":{"rendered":"Siegel releases statement in support of community feedback for Allentown\u2019s rezoning plan"},"content":{"rendered":"

HARRISBURG,\u00a0 \u2013 <\/strong>State Rep. Josh Siegel released the following statement today regarding the rezoning of Allentown:<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s critical Allentown residents provide feedback to the city\u2019s planned rezoning which has the power to be one of the most transformative steps the city can take to increase housing attainability and improve the building blocks of urban vibrancy.\u00a0Walkable and dense environments filled with robust amenities such as green space and public spaces that foster community and close access to employment, healthcare and entertainment make the difference between cities which simply survive and those that thrive.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the legislature, I\u2019ve been one of the leading voices around making our communities more attainable and reducing housing costs for our residents.\u00a0Housing costs remains one of my top priorities and we can\u2019t tackle it without talking about zoning.\u00a0The restrictions it places on the ability of housing stock to grow to meet demand has been one of the biggest drivers of our crisis of affordability.\u00a0The Lehigh Valley and Allentown hasn\u2019t built fast enough to meet the demand of everyone who wants to call our region home.<\/p>\n

\u201cI encourage all of our residents to embrace these changes to our zoning code.\u00a0This issue is about freedom and access, it\u2019s about being able to live in the neighborhood and community of your choice without being constrained by cost, ensuring the children we educate in our city can afford to live in it once they graduate and help everyone from seniors to first-time homebuyers find the place they need.\u00a0It\u2019s about building vibrant neighborhoods and streets from Union Boulevard to Hamilton that are safe, walkable, exciting and open for business.\u201d<\/p>\n

Allentown\u2019s rezoning plan can be found\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Information provided to TVL by:
\nDeclan Shaffer
\nHouse Democratic Communications Office<\/p>\n

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HARRISBURG,\u00a0 \u2013 State Rep. Josh Siegel released the following statement today regarding the rezoning of Allentown: \u201cIt\u2019s critical Allentown residents provide feedback to the city\u2019s planned rezoning which has the … Continue reading Siegel releases statement in support of community feedback for Allentown\u2019s rezoning plan<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130074,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5716,69,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allentown","category-in-the-valley","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/zone-Allentown.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130073"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/130074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}