Something's Developing in Lower Pottsgrove

Photo by Evan Brandt

This is the Lower Pottsgrove Commissioners listening to the 2013 audit report.

The Lower Pottsgrove Commissioners meeting Thursday night took a little over an hour and covered a couple of subjects.
The audit report was read, which was a challenge to consciousness; and Police Chief Michael Foltz

Photo by Evan Brandt

Benjamin Goldfarb shows a concept for developing 57 acres

off South Pleasantview Road.

offered a brief update on the condition of officer James Kenney, who was injured in a car crash earlier this week. (See below).

But the commissioners also heard a proposal from Reading Site Materials, owners of the Sanatoga quarry, to develop 57 acres off South Pleasantview Road.

One options includes only 155 single-family homes, and the other, commercial development on a little over seven acres facing Route 422 and 118 single family homes.

The commissioners also voted to set a public hearing for an overlay zone which would encourage open space preservation in exchange for increased, clustered development.

The Tweets from the meeting are below.