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, kidnapped and traded as chattel.
This you know. But perhaps few beyond professional historians have thought about the effects of these activities on the archive of history: that is, the very documents that create for us what history is. It is too easy to think of the archive as, in the historian Stephanie Smallwood’s words, ‘merely a repository of free-floating empirical facts to be lifte
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.
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The Bethlehem Department of Community and Economic Development has proposed creating two student housing overlay zoning districts on the northeast and northwest sides of the university’s Southside campus. It grandfathers in existing student housing, and allows a max of five students per home.