Annville commissioners to consider rezoning residential home to commercial

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Annville Township’s board of commissioners will hear an ordinance at its March 3 meeting to rezone a home at 648-650 Main Street from R-1 low-density residential to C-commercial.

Consideration of township Ordinance 705 could slip to the April 7 meeting depending on notice requirements, township solicitor Megan Ryland Tanner told the board.

The property is owned and occupied by chiropractor Timothy Brennan, who wants to rent out an empty portion of the house to a business, Tanner told LebTown.

“The matter is currently with county planning and we’re waiting to hear back from them regarding their opinion,” Tanner told the board.

The Lebanon County Planning Commission last year voted 3-2 to reject the zoning change from residential to commercial.

Annville Township’s Residential Drop-Off Center also came up in Tuesday’s meeting. The recycling center, which also is open to North Annville and South Annville township residents lost $36,249.33 in 2025, township manager Candie Johnson said, up from an operating loss of $33,164.45 in 2024, according to township records.

The recycling center posted expenses of $97,577.71, which is 28.7% costlier than in 2024. Revenues in 2025 totaled $61,328.38, up 43.8%.

Enforcing access to the drop-off center is an ongoing issue for Annville Township, which requires residents purchase a $100 annual access card. North Annville and South Annville residents pay a higher fee. Non-residents pay $350 per year.

“We’re going to look at some alternative abuse rules coming up,” Johnson said, referring to cardholders who use the center to drop off trash in order to avoid garbage collection fees, or use the center too often to be recycling only. “We’re seeing some major abuse there. People just coming in all the time, so we’ll be looking at monitoring that,” Johnson said of enforcement efforts planned for this year.

Another costly expense to be closely monitored is fulfillment of Right to Know (RTK) requests, said board President Rex Moore. Beginning this year, the township is keeping track each month of how much the requests cost the township, who is making the requests and whether appeals have been filed, he said.

RTK requests for January cost the township $6,492, after a fourth-quarter 2025 cost of $20,323.50, Moore said.

For all of 2025, the township had 17 individuals request information, with seven making multiple requests, some large enough to require multiple request form pages, he said.

In other business:

• Western Lebanon County Regional Police issued no citations over false alarms in January, Chief Andrew Winters told the board, thanks to an ordinance the board approved last November to prevent and deter the installation, maintenance and use of police and fire alarms, and fire alarms that provide repetitious false alarms.
• The township earned $264,088.71 interest in 2025 on its fund deposits, Johnson said, down from $289,088.71 in 2024 because interest rates were lowered last year.
• Annville Township has procured a Local Shares Account grant to build an Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) compliant ramp for the rear entrance to the town hall, Johnson told the board.

• The Annville Cleona Fire Department is asking residents to clear snow around fire hydrants, department safety officer Dustin Sider told the board.
• Clean Up the Streets Day is Saturday, March 14 beginning 10 a.m. at Fountain Plaza, with additional Annville Goes Green activities planned, including park cleanup and related Earth Day activities coordinated by the township’s library.
• Volunteers are “very much needed” to help with the Bunny Hop Egg Hunt, Saturday, March 28 from noon to 2 p.m. at Quittie Creek Nature Park.
• Historical Old Annville Day is Saturday, June 13, staged in and around the Lebanon Valley College campus, board commissioner Henri Lively said.