Great News - Attend the Meeting to Help!

Friends of Laurel Wood have some great news - North Whitehall Township has proposed changes to the Senior Neighborhood ordinance that would make it more difficult to construct a development on the proposed Strawberry Acres tract!

Want to help us make this proposed changes permanent?  Please show your support by attending the planning meeting on Tuesday, October 25, 2016 at 7:30pm at the Township Building.

Some background:
For the last several years, we've been asking North Whitehall Township to disallow zoning changes requested by the Developer of a proposed senior living community on the former Strawberry Acres property. The zoning allowances did not happen and we are now asking for permanent changes to the zoning laws. North Whitehall has taken the first steps to make the zoning requirements for such a development more stringent.  I believe that under these changes the proposed Strawberry Acres development would need to be severely reduced if it could be built at all on the current track.

Township Councilman Steve Pany proposed at the October meeting that the Township revise the current ordinance which regulates Senior Developments.  The Supervisors agreed that changes should be considered and directed Mr. Pany to develop a proposal to be reviewed by the Planning and Zoning committees prior to their final consideration.   After the meeting I provided Mr. Pany with a copy of the proposed changes our group submitted to the Township earlier in the year.  The resulting Township proposal will be discussed at the Planning Committee meeting on Tuesday October 25 at 7:30 in the Township building which reflects most of the content of our proposal. 

These changes will be a significant success if this is approved and incorporated into the Township’s regulations.  As such, please attend the meeting to show your support.

In addition, I need to remind all members that we still owe the Lawyers about $600, please join me in contributing to pay this obligation.

Want more information on the proposed changes?  Do so here!