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.

In the Zone

Poorly focused photo by Evan Brandt

A small portion of the audience at Monday night's zoning hearing.

Monday's meeting of the Lower Pottsgrove Township Board of Commissioners began early with a public hearing.

The hearing was on a zoning change, that was ultimately adopted, but about which quite a few residents and property owners had reservations.

Although the issue dominated most of the meeting's Tweets, which can be read below, an article about that also appears in today's Mercury.

Later in the evening, another newsworthy event came about when Commissioners Chairman Bruce Foltz announced that after polling the other board members, he had contacted the developers proposing a Family Dollar story in Sanatoga, "thanks, but no thanks."

Look for that Tweet near the bottom of the Storify reproduced here.

We'll be following up on that as well.

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