Several neighbors who challenged the proposed development of a “boutique hotel” and event space on West Court Street in Doylestown Borough recently appealed the zoning board’s partial approval of the controversial project.

For more than two hours, dozens of Doylestown Borough residents again implored the community’s zoning hearing board to protect their close-knit neighborhood from a hotel plan they said will derail the lifestyle they’ve enjoyed for decades.

It was standing-room only at Doylestown Borough’s zoning board hearing Wednesday night as homeowners near a proposed hotel on West Court Street questioned the developer’s representatives.

Some Doylestown Borough residents living near a proposed hotel on West Court Street are increasing their efforts to have the scale and scope of the plan significantly reduced.

Before Doylestown’s former borough hall can become a “boutique” hotel, restaurant and event space, it has to be torn down. Approval for that demolition was recently given by the town’s …