Allentown City Zoning Code

MX-D, Storefront Mix Downtown Core. The MX-D Zone is primarily intended for the highest intensity of activity in the downtown, where mixed-use buildings include ground-floor storefronts and upper story offices, residential, and other commercial uses.

MX-C, Storefront Mix Corridors. The MX-C Zone is primarily intended along street corridors throughout the City, where walkable storefronts provide shopping and services for neighborhood residents with residential and office uses in upper stories.

MX-S, Storefront Mix Suburban Centers. The MX-S Zone is primarily intended for mixed-use, regional-scale nodes within the City, where residents and visitors may access multiple uses by walking and automobile.

MX-N, Storefront Mix Neighborhood Centers. The MX-N Zone is primarily intended for nodes at corners or along small-scale corridors where existing storefront buildings and converted residential buildings have served the neighborhoods with daily shopping and service needs.

GX-D, Residential-Office Mix Downtown. The GX-D Zone is primarily intended for the areas surrounding the downtown core, where buildings may be single- or mixed-use with mainly offices, residences, and other supporting commercial uses.

GX-C, Residential-Office Mix Corridor. The GX-C Zone is primarily intended for locations along corridors and in nodes, where residential and/or office buildings can mix comfortably with artisan production and limited commercial service uses. GX-C buildings may be larger and more intensive than GX-N buildings.

GX-N, Residential-Office Mix Neighborhood Centers. The GX-N Zone is primarily intended for locations along corridors and in neighborhood nodes, where smaller-scaled buildings can house residential, office, artisan production, and limited commercial service uses.

NX, Residential Mix Neighborhood. The NX Neighborhood Zone is intended to allow a mix of residential buildings in a neighborhood development, typically with multiple buildings on a single lot.

N1, Urban Neighborhood. The N1 Neighborhood Zone is primarily intended to maintain and enhance the general physical form of the City's oldest existing rowhouse neighborhoods.

N2, Town Neighborhood. The N2 Zone is primarily intended to maintain and enhance the general physical form of the City's existing, turn-of-the century rowhouse neighborhoods.

N3, Twinhouse-House Neighborhood 1. The N3 Zone is primarily intended to maintain and enhance the physical form of neighborhoods of primarily twin-houses and houses on small-sized lots with a few small apartment buildings and some nodes of rowhouses.

N4, Twinhouse-House Neighborhood 2. The N4 Zone is primarily intended to maintain and enhance the physical form of the existing neighborhoods with a mix of twin-houses and houses on small- and mid-sized lots.

N5, House Neighborhood. The N5 Zone is primarily intended to maintain and enhance the physical form of neighborhoods with a wide range of house types on small-, mid-, and large-sized lots.

IX, Industrial-Commercial Mix. The IX Zone is primarily intended for vehicle-oriented commercial, low-impact manufacturing, and warehouse and wholesaling uses with more automobile and truck traffic than the MX zones. This zone is primarily intended for use outside of commercial corridors.

IG, Industrial General. The IG Zone is intended to preserve locations for low- and moderate-impact manufacturing uses and industrial services.

IM, Industrial Manufacturing. The IM Zone is primarily intended for a focus on a wide range of manufacturing and associated industrial uses as well as industrial services.

P1, Parks and Open Space. The P1 Zone is primarily intended for open space, including permanent parks, recreation spaces, cemeteries, and water buffers.

P2, Civic and Institutional Buildings and Sites. The P2 Zone is primarily intended for civic and institutional facilities, such as houses of worship, cultural or arts centers, City Hall, hospitals, and community centers; and campuses, such as the historic fairgrounds, stadiums, and schools. This zone is also intended for public or private civic infrastructure, such as utility corridors or sites.

Developable land includes any land that is not environmentally sensitive, including steep slopes or heavily wooded areas to be retained, as determined by the City Engineer.

Developments on sites in I or P zones are exempt from master plan development requirements.