Lower Merion Township at that time had taken a strong stand on the issue and passed an ordinance defining such dwellings as ‘student houses,’ restricting occupancy to three, and also requiring that such houses be separated by a distance 20 times the minimum lot width of houses within that zoning district. The issues were primarily disturbances, trash accumulation, overcrowding, and housing unit density. Approximately 11 years ago, a general meeting was held at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, with the express purpose of invited municipal representatives to discuss and determine the most expeditious way to solve the student housing problem. The student off-campus housing problem has been a plague to municipalities within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for many years. The failure of the city of Allentown to restrict student housing to two students per home appears to be more a procedural error rather than a legal problem.
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