Board Minutes – January 10, 2006

 

The meeting was called to order at 7:35. Those in attendance were Bob Copel, Bob Graeff, Bob O’Leary, John Coffin, Lou Erdelan, Cathy Lucas, Anita and Tom Lawson, Jane Charpentier, Albert Charpentier, and Polly Hagan.  There were no minutes at this time from the December meeting. The treasurer’s report for January was accepted.

 

Committee Reports

Zoning – Notification of neighbors as to a zoning change will be done before a zoning change takes place. This is an issue concerning  Georgetown Drive. There is no resolution of the topic of subdivision of a large parcel on Georgetown at this time.

Planning – There will not be cluster development on the Hudson property. Instead there will be 18 scattered lots. The final plans have not been presented. The homes will be very expensive.

Topics for discussion

Paoli redevelopment – There is a meeting coming up with Willistown, and Tredyffrin Townships and their consultant to look at a draft of a revised zoning ordinance for the area. Both townships will review the plan and a recommendation will be made to the Board of Supervisors who will inform the community, review the proposed plan and decide whether to adopt the ordinance.

There is no sewer update on the possibility of connecting to the Atwater sewer system along Yellow Springs Road

Route 202 – A group of concerned citizens from Pineview and Jonathan Drives met to discuss the increased noise on 202. PennDOT took new readings which they said were the same as before, those being 6-10 dbs. lower than residents had measured. The residents will continue to work for the installation of higher sound walls than are proposed

Church Road – Anyone within the 500’ buffer can vote on any proposed change to the covenant.  Residents basically want to keep down traffic on Church Road. Some proposed traffic calming devices are a hedgerow median strip, added stop signs, and the cutting off of Church Road at St. John’s Road which would alleviate cut through traffic trying to get to Howell Road from Church Road by turning left on Yellow Springs Road.

Turnpike – The Board of Supervisors has written a letter of support for the inclusion of sound walls on the turnpike in the township along with the turnpike widening. Thanks to Bob O’Leary and the Planning Commission for supporting this idea also. Supervisor Paul Drucker is helping to develop a township noise ordinance. Township Manager Mimi Gleason said that the turnpike will have to abide by such an ordinance. She also stated that the turnpike must abide by our storm water ordinance. In order to pay for a sound engineering study the group is going to have to raise money. The money would be held by GVA and dispersed by them in accordance with a plan made by the turnpike subcommittee and the GVA Board. Urban Engineers may not have followed the protocol they were to follow in their sound study paid for by the turnpike. They did not measure the speed of the vehicles on the road and the variations in terrain along the road. The subcommittee will meet on January 17t

Swedesford and N.Valley Roads – The Township is planning to realign and widen the intersection, widening each road to three lanes and straightening the intersection. Once the plan is in place, it will be hard to change. So, the subcommittee working on that issue will have to come up with an alternate plan to present to the township.

 

The meeting was adjourned at 9.

 

Respectfully submitted,

 

Polly Hagan

Secretary