West Cornwall Township supervisors adopt regional comprehensive plan

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West Cornwall Township supervisors voted unanimously to adopt the Cornwall-Lebanon Regional Comprehensive Plan at a public hearing Monday, Jan. 12, before their regularly scheduled monthly meeting.

Supervisors David Lloyd and Dennis Tulli, planning commission member Kim Juliana, and township engineer Jeff Steckbeck had represented the township during the development of the comprehensive plan. Developed by the municipalities in the Cornwall-Lebanon School District, the plan contains policy recommendations for the future.

In a brief presentation, Steckbeck noted that the township’s zoning map is solid with sufficient fair share of all types of housing.

“There were no outstanding unusual findings for the region and none for West Cornwall Township,” he said at the hearing.

Following the vote, supervisors began their meeting with a recognition of Russ Gibble, who has served the township as a supervisor for 40 years and as board chairman for 28 years. Gibble continues to serve as supervisor, with David Lloyd appointed as chairman at the recent reorganization meeting.

Supervisors heard from Steckbeck that stormwater excavation and grading is underway at Cavalry at Quentin, a mixed-use development at the corner of routes 419 and 72. Sewer and water utility installation is scheduled for March or April after roads are rough-graded.

Planned for the 46-acre site are a Wawa convenience store and gas station; 120 age-restricted, multi-family apartments; therapeutic riding facility; and several single-family homes. Lebanon Federal Credit Union also has committed to locating administrative offices and a training center in the development.

In December, Wawa received a zoning permit for the new store and canopy lighting, said Steckbeck in an email after the meeting. The permit application lists the store’s address as 2500 Quentin Road and 29 E. Main St., but a new address of 200 Secretariat Drive was assigned to the lot by Lebanon County GIS.

Steckbeck also reported that the five buildings of Apartments at 419 have been completed and that 62 out of 104 units are leased and occupied. Work also continues on Iron Mill Townes, a development of 16 townhomes off South Zinns Mill Road. Two of the four-unit structures are scheduled to be ready for occupancy by mid-February, Steckbeck said.

The curb, sidewalk, and drainage improvement project at North Zinns Mill Road and Main Street in Quentin is 99% complete, Steckbeck said. Parking lot paving and parking meters at the township property at that corner are still in design.

Quentin Mennonite School has agreed to permit the West Cornwall Township Municipal Authority to drill a test well on its property west of the Scenic Ridge development, said Steckbeck, who also serves as engineer for the authority. This would give the authority four wells.

The authority also will be soliciting bids for 440 feet of 8-inch water main replacement on Main Street, beneath Route 72 for construction in the spring.

Design of a drainage control project for South Zinns Mill Road has been completed. The township has received a construction quote of $5,800 from T&D Excavating, Steckbeck said.

In other business, supervisors:

• Appointed Amy Weaver to the township planning commission;
• Instructed township solicitor Eric Gibson to amend the existing transient business ordinance to include food trucks.
  • The current ordinance primarily focuses on door-to-door sales, Gibson said.
  • The amended ordinance also would shift applying for a permit for a food truck from Cornwall Borough Police to the township.
• Asked for a quality-of-life ordinance that would provide an added tool to enforce maintenance of the township property maintenance code. Such an ordinance would allow the township zoning officer to issue a violation.

West Cornwall Township supervisors meet at 73 S. Zinns Mill Road on the second Monday of each month at 6:30 p.m. The next meeting will be held Monday, Feb. 9. These meetings are open to the public and do not require registration.