The upcoming meetings of the North Whitehall Board of Supervisors and Planning Commission are key meetings in the progress of the Strawberry Acres development. Please attend if you can!
August 1, 2022 - North Whitehall Board of Supervisors meeting. 7:30pm at the Township Building
August 23, 2022 - Planning Commission meeting. 7:30pm at the Township Building
Tonight! (Monday, 7/11/2022), the Strawberry Acres Development is on the agenda for the Board of Supervisor's meeting to request another extension to submit error-free plans. Tonight, the
supervisors must decided whether or not go allow the extension.
Strawberry Acres has made it to this month's - June 2022 - planning commission meeting, as there is a new submission from the developer.
We have not had a lot of time to review the submissions, but Tom has looked at them and will present the shortcomings he found (and there are many). I hope to be able to speak on the traffic issues.
Please try to make the meeting.
It is this Tuesday, June 28, at 7:30pm at the North Whitehall Township Building.
At the March 7, 2022 North Whitehall Township Board of Supervisors’ meeting, the developer for the former Strawberry Acres property asked for another extension on presenting plans for the project; however, no one was present to represent them or state a reason on why another extension was needed.
The supervisors were ready to approve the requested 3 month extension for the Land Development Plan until Tom requested that they consider the whole 8 year history of this project. The Supervisors then entered a discussion on the project, the requested extension, and why another extension was needed. After this discussion , they broke their standard approval of this type of request and decided to give the developer a 30 day extension only, and want the developer to come before the Supervisors in the April 2022 meeting to discuss the project, what they need the extension for, and when they really will be in a position to present updated land development proposal.
Please attend the April 4, 2022 Board of Supervisors meeting (mtg at 7:30pm at the North Whitehall Township building). We will need a large group to show support for not approving additional extensions.
Thank you!
Originally, the Developer for the Strawberry Acres property was to be on the agenda for the 11/23/2021 Planning Commission Meeting. However, the Developer as withdrawn this request and will therefore be on the agenda at a later date.
We'll keep you updated as we learn more.
Just two things to note:
1) At the supervisor's meeting on April 5th one of the items on the agenda was Ordinance 2021-1. This is an ordinance to amend Ordinance 2006-2. The new ordinance will eliminate AARC in any zone other than SR Districts. It unfortunately comes too late for us as far as the current issue is concerned but it does eliminate the possibility of the current AARC being expanded. It must be publicized and there will be a public hearing on it. In a way it is a win for us. Our voice did make a change.
2) There's an election coming up for Township Supervisors! Despite saying he is done, Mark Hills is running again. Al Gepsots is running against him, but hasn't put as many signs up. Al was the zoning officer for North Whitehall several years ago and is a very qualified person. If anyone would like it, I have his CV.
On Thursday, 3/25/2021, the Township Supervisors will continue the Conditional Use Hearing for the Strawberry Acres AARC. It was expected that the Commissioners will make their final decision at this meeting, however, as of 3/24/2021, there have been reports that the Developer has requested an additional continuance to sometime in June 2021 to allow them to make adjustments to meet some of the concerns as put forward by the local residents.
The meeting is still happening; it won't be open for public comment, but please register and attend the meeting to show your support and concern. Further information can be found on North Whitehall Township's website: http://northwhitehall.org/
