A proposed residential real estate development in Upper Macungie, Pennsylvania, northwest of Philadelphia, has received conditional approval, despite the objections of area residents.The Upper Macungie Planning Commission approved the preliminary plans for a community...
Month: May 2012
Trust, school district trying to strike land deal
Representatives of a family trust and a Pennsylvania school district are negotiating the transfer of a piece of commercial real estate. First, however, the two sides must agree to future land use and other issues.The family trust wants to sign over a 68-acre parcel,...
University takes zoning fight to high court
Anyone who wants to make any sort of land use changes knows that the zoning process can be burdensome. And although new athletic fields at a Philadelphia-area university have seen action this spring, the dispute over the campus improvements lingers on.The university...
Pennsylvania community residents at odds over hobby
It isn't the typical neighborhood real estate dispute, but it nonetheless is an issue that has residents of a Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, community buzzing.It all started when a couple installed two bee hives on the deck behind their home. A woman who lives four...
Buyer, seller at standstill over historic home sale
A seller and a prospective buyer who both want a Pennsylvania house preserved as a historic site are stuck in a stalemate over a potential real estate sale, with the seller eager to close the deal and the buyer insisting on assurances of zoning variances from the...
