After telling the owner of a cell phone tower company that they had no problem with a plan to erect a temporary 100-foot cell tower at the highway department property on N. Pleasantview Road, followed by a permanent 150-foot pole, Lower Pottsgrove Commissioners got down to the issue on everyone's mind -- a new township building.
Commissioner Ray Lopez, speaking on behalf of the Infrastructure Committee, read from a report put together on the subject.
He said Lower Pottsgrove has five options:
- Do nothing
- Expand on the existing building
- Buy an additional building of similar size and split the administration and police department
- Buy a building large enough to accommodate the expansion of both
- Build a building large enough to accommodate the expansion of both
All things considered, Lopez said, the committee's recommendation is to build a new building on the property the township has purchased at the corner of East High Street and South Pleasantview Road.
Lopez said expanding the current building would cost as much as $4 million, lose scant parking spaces, and it would only be a few years before even that space was too small.
Splitting the administration and police would make things difficult for the public and reduce efficiencies achieved by having both in the same building, Lopez said.
Twice before the township looked at buying a larger building, including a look at the former Lower Pottsgrove Elementary School, but the cost of renovation "exceeded the cost of erecting a new building," he said.
That leaves the recommended option, a new building at the newly purchased property.
Lopez said there is still a lot of information to gather and process before a cost estimate or timeline can be established. Commissioners Chairman Bruce Foltz said the Infrastructure Committee "tooko this very seriously."
There was no vote on the recommendation, but the path appears to be set.
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