Zoning zealots ban allergic woman’s outdoor hut


	Zoning zealots ban allergic woman’s outdoor hut

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4-12-2007 6:22 PM

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Trying to protect his wife from life-threatening allergies caused Craig Bowes to make a big mistake, one that antagonized his neighbors and has gotten him into trouble with South Whitehall Township.</DIV>
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Elizabeth Feudale, his wife, suffers severely from environmental illness, also known as multiple chemical sensitivity.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mcall.com/news/local/allentown/all-b1-5allergyapr03,0,737346.story?coll=all-newslocalallentown-hed"><DIV>
The couple no longer can afford for her to stay in specially designed housing free of chemicals, molds and pollens in Texas. And they are tired of being kept apart for years by her illness.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mcall.com/news/local/allentown/all-b1-5allergyapr03,0,737346.story?coll=all-newslocalallentown-hed"><DIV>
So Bowes installed a special modular housing unit in their backyard at 1531 N. 19th St.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.mcall.com/news/local/allentown/all-b1-5allergyapr03,0,737346.story?coll=all-newslocalallentown-hed"><DIV>
But, based on a neighbor's complaint, the township ordered him in late January to stop work on the trailer-like unit, which the couple has named ''the bubble.''</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D73113F9-147F-4DD4-9085-7D453E5E2845/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>