DOYLESTOWN, PA—Will Doylestown be getting a new boutique hotel in the West Court Street building that used to be the borough headquarters and police department? Based on the outcome of a zoning hearing meeting on Tuesday night, the answer is a maybe.
The borough’s zoning hearing board ruled that the hotel can be taller than zoning regulations typically allow, but it denied the builder’s request to provide only 61 parking spots instead of the 72 required by borough ordinance.
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In an 18-page ruling, the zoning hearing board said that the hotel can’t include a rooftop terrace or deck area. The borough will also require the hotel to build trellises or some other type of structure on the balconies of rooms in the back of the building, which will look over the surrounding houses.
Those last two rulings were a nod to the building’s neighbors, who have blasted the height of the building, which will stand 45 feet above the surface of the parking lot behind the building. Residents don’t want hotel guests peering into their yards and windows, and they worry about the noise that would be produced by hotel guests lounging on a rooftop area.