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Article: Witnesses fear liquor license will increase traffic: Bethlehem residents appealing decision in favor of restaurant.
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- The Morning Call (Allentown, PA)
- Article date:
- March 28, 2006
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Byline: Paul Muschick
Mar. 28--Testimony began Monday in an appeal of a liquor license granted to a proposed Italian restaurant in downtown Bethlehem. Steve Selvaggio was given the license last March, following hearings by the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board, for the restaurant in the former Brown Printing storefront at Market Street and Heckenwelder Place. Area residents appealed to Northampton County Court, saying that having a liquor license at the restaurant would cause traffic, noise, litter and parking problems.
Attorney George Heitczman, representing residents, told Judge Emil Giordano the PLCB failed to consider evidence of how the liquor ...