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A study of the South Bethlehem historic district recommends reducing building heights in certain areas.

A study aiming to balance future development with the charm of Bethlehem’s South Side Historic Conservation District recommends increasing building heights from 60 feet to 90 feet in one portion of the central business district, while dropping them from 150 feet to 60 feet elsewhere in the district.

For those in 2020 who did not support the removal of statues (the Secretary of State for Culture among them, you’ll remember), their dismantling constituted a form of erasure: cancel culture’s elimination of the past, the rewriting of history. Of course, the truth is that the statues being deposed were those of men who had far more literally and violently erased history themselves. They were slave traders and owners, colonisers and imperialists. It was on their watch, with their authority and to their enrichment that humans were enslaved, oppressed, murdered, censored, raped, traumatised,...

Bethlehem looks to limit where college students can live in the Southside Updated Dec 15, 2020; Posted Dec 15, 2020 The blue area indicates Bethlehem’s institutional zoning district where Lehigh University is situated. The orange areas indicate a proposed student housing overlay district where student housing would be allowed for up to five students per residence. The purple areas are existing commercially zoned areas that would allow up to three students per residence. Facebook Share The Bethlehem Department of Community and Economic Development has proposed creating two student housing ...