North Cornwall Twp. adopts Cornwall-Lebanon regional comprehensive plan

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The North Cornwall Board of Supervisors unanimously agreed to a resolution adopting the Cornwall-Lebanon Comprehensive Plan at a meeting Tuesday.

Supervisors adopted the resolution following a period for public comment, during which there was no feedback from residents.

The plan is an advisory, non-binding document shared between municipalities in the Cornwall-Lebanon School District (Cornwall Borough and North Cornwall, North Lebanon, South Lebanon, and West Cornwall townships) that makes policy recommendations concerning development, zoning, services, and more.

The planning commissions of participating municipalities, including North Cornwall, recommended approval of the plan following a joint meeting in October.

Supervisors also heard the end-of-year report from the Lebanon County Regional Police Department.

Chief Tim Knight of the LCRPD reviewed a presentation with the department’s stats for December and the whole of 2025.

Over last year, the first year since the department arose from a merger between the departments of North Cornwall and North Lebanon Townships, the LCRPD received 15,862 calls to service, further broken down as follows:

• 564 accidents
• 3,906 traffic citations
• 482 parking tickets
• 310 non-traffic citations
• 2,016 traffic warnings
• 1,321 crimes investigated
• 512 arrests (misdemeanors and felonies)

In comparing overtime between 2024 and 2025, Knight said that the overtime between North Lebanon and North Cornwall departments in 2024 totaled 828.5. In comparison, the LCRPD accrued 644.75 hours of overtime in 2025.

During the last quarter of the year, the LCRPD had 246.5 hours of overtime, compared to 191 between the two departments in the last quarter of 2024. This is explained by a department-wide training in October, Knight said, which involved all officers.

Throughout the year, North Cornwall was responsible for 43% of calls to service, North Lebanon 48%, and West Lebanon Township (which is also served by the LCRPD) 9%. Knight said during North Lebanon’s meeting Monday the call distribution was around what the force had expected going into 2025. Average response time, he said, is just under four minutes.

Knight also said that, throughout 2025, Sgt. Herberg conducted 41 level-1 inspections and 30 level-3 inspections for the Motor Carrier Safety Assistance Program. The program oversees the stopping and inspection of commercial vehicles to reduce frequency of accidents. Throughout 2025, Herberg found 228 violations and issued 62 citations, which led to 26 out-of-service orders.

Supervisors also heard Neversink Fire Company’s December and 2025 reports. Calls were divided as follows:

• 154 false alarms
• 59 good intent/public service
• 55 MVAs
• 47 hazardous conditions
• 40 cancelled
• 33 fire, structure, commercial
• 23 medical
• 13 stand by/transfer
• 12 wild land/brush, other
• 12 rescue
• 5 vehicle/transportation
• 3 dispatched, no incident

Supervisors asked about the frequency of false alarms, which are partly the result of automatic fire alarm systems.

During 2025, the department had 2,147 hours on incidents, 2,543 hours on training, 440.25 hours of meetings, 749 hours of public services/fire prevention, 121.5 hours of work details, 54 hours of duty crew/staff, 51 parade hours, and 43 fundraiser hours.

In other news, supervisors:

• Unanimously approved a payment of $223,406.75 to JEV Construction for the Dairy Road Pump Station project. The project is expected to be completed in August, following several delays of the receipt of sewage pumps (now expected in February).
• Unanimously approved a final letter of credit reduction for North Cornwall Commons lots 23-25.
• Unanimously approved an auditor resignation letter, with 30 days to fill the seat.
• Unanimously approved a resolution adopting the right-to-know policy to contain the current address of the Office of Open Records, no other major changes.
• Unanimously approved minutes and heard reports

North Cornwall Township meets the first and third Tuesday of each month at 6 p.m. These meetings are open to the public and do not require prior registration.