Two public hearings on land development pitted developers against residents.
Two recent development projects came before the Limerick Board of Supervisors during Tuesday night's meeting. Both projects were the subject of a public hearing, which is a required part of the land development process. The first project involves TP Trailers, Inc., a Limerick business that sells and repairs truck equipment and trailers. TP Trailers is hoping to expand their business and build a new showroom/office building on their property at Ridge Pike and Airport Road. Owner Thomas Perkins said that the new building will help him seperate his retail and commercial sales and service. He'll also be able to hire between five and eight new people to add to his current staff of 20. Perkins has already agreed to the stricter …
Signage, Lewis Road project on the agenda
Tuesday's meeting of the Limerick Township Board of Supervisors saw some change orders for the Lewis Road project approved and some discussion about signage for a new car dealership on Linfield-Trappe Road. Two items came up for the Lewis Road project. Traffic Planning and Design engineer Joe Platt said that the construction crew had discovered a large area, measuring 10 feet by approximately 1300 feet, that has soil that is too soft to lay stone. "It can't be compacted," Platt said. The cost for the soil issue could be as much as $99,000 depending on how much stone needs to be used to fill the area in. The board also approved spending just under $30,000 to connect the sewer lines on the Cherry Ridge property (the former Linsenmaier …
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Planned ordinance will regulate what businesses can have visible on property
As part of the ongoing Ridge Pike rezoning project, the Limerick Township Board of Supervisors took up the issue of where and how businesses in the new rezoned district will be allowed to store or display their wares. The ordinance is currently in the draft stage. Much of the discussion centered around the need to define the terms "display" and "storage" and whether all types of businesses or just certain ones would be able to display items. Storage would be allowed on the side and in the rear of the building, under the ordinance's current provisions, and would have to be hidden by either a fence or landscape buffering. Three Peas In A Pod owner Gail Wellington said that in her opinion, "it's a matter of taste." "No one is going to …
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Property owner presents revised plans for soccer facility
Gabe Betancourt, owner of The Far Post in Oaks, presented his plans for a new soccer facility located on Airport Road in Linfield at Tuesday's Limerick Township Board of Supervisors meeting. Betancourt was represented by his attorney, Rob Lewis of Kaplan Stewart, and engineer Nick Feola of Bursich Associates. Feola and Lewis told the board that the plan includes a 57,800-square-foot building with two indoor soccer fields, and three lit outdoor fields with parking. Two of the outdoor fields will be synthetic turf and one will be grass. The public hearing at the meeting was held in order for Betancourt to secure approval to use the 18-acre property as a sports facility. The property is currently zoned Office/Light Industrial and requires a …
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Board discusses home-business approval for local company, budget information
Limerick's Board of Supervisors gave the go-ahead to Sweet Ashley's Chocolate to move their production from Spring City to a home on Lewis Road at Tuesday's meeting. Sweet Ashley's owners Connie and Robert Lawson came before the board during a public hearing. The Lawsons plan on purchasing a home on Lewis Road and moving production there. Nothing will change with respect to their storefront location on Main Street in Royersford. Previously, the home was a photography studio, and the Lawsons will convert the studio space into a kitchen. There was a list of conditions attached to the agreement, including conditions preventing the Lawsons from using the home as a retail shop or placing signage on the property. However, board members Thomas …
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Board discusses development issues with two projects, new sign for township building
Land development issues were the hottest topic of discussion at Tuesday's Limerick Board of Supervisors meeting. Three development projects were on the township's list to approve preliminary and/or final plans Tuesday night, but two of them - Primrose School, 259 Royersford Rd., and Lewis Square, 508 N. Lewis Rd., are currently being affected by a recent Department of Environmental Protection moratorium. The township received a letter about the moratorium, which affects two-thirds of the developable land in the area. The moratorium stops development in areas that drain into the pumping station behind the Limerick Crossing shopping center. The DEP issued the moratorium because the second pump (which should turn on when the first pump is …
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Supervisors hear presentation from consultant on beginnings of streetscaping and beautification projects
Tuesday night's Limerick Township Board of Supervisors meeting saw the reveal of early proposals for rezoning Ridge Pike, presented by consulting architect Peter Simone of Simone Collins Landscape Architecture. The supervisors want to institute consistent building, landscaping and appearance guidelines along the length of Ridge Pike because it serves as the "main street" for Limerick Township. Simone's presentation included redrawn zoning districts, including some new zoning areas that will allow for mixed property uses such as residential properties attached to commercial properties. The new guidelines would allow more flexibility in how properties could be used, while implementing design standards and developing streetscapes that would …
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Increase necessary to close $1M budget gap
The Limerick Township Board of Supervisors reviewed its 2012 budget at Tuesday evening's meeting. The budget will include a tax increase and a sewer rate increase. A motion was passed, 3-1, to advertise the budget. The increase will raise the millage rate around 20-percent, from 1.213 to 1.516 mills. On a home assessed at the township's median value of $145,000, that rate will increase from about $176 per year to $220 per year. Township manager Daniel Kerr pointed out that the current rate of 1.213 mills is the 12th-lowest tax rate in the county (of 62 municipalities). The new 1.516 mills rate will give Limerick the eighteenth lowest rate. The tax increase is necessary to reduce a budget deficit of $1,026,521 for next year. It will reduce …
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3:25 pm on Friday, November 18, 2011
Dear Frank, Lorraine, and Matt, etc, Stop moaning and pointing fingers. Do you really believe that it makes any differences whether you vote for a democrat or a republican or that you split your ticket? Really? They are politicans after all and their # 1 job is to make sure they get theirs first and you and I get to pay for it. We are a mere after thought. Aside from the usual lies, graft and … more ›
Donation benefits local foundation
Limerick Township Supervisor Joseph St. Pedro announced Tuesday night at the Board of Supervisors meeting that he would again be donating his supervisor's salary of $3,250 to the Montgomery County Foundation. This year is the third time St. Pedro has donated his salary to the foundation. The foundation is a non-profit organization that exists to help donors realize their philanthropic goals by providing grants within the local community for programs such as emergency assistance with heating and cooling costs and help for local residents who are hungry and homeless. St. Pedro is involved with the foundation on a day-to-day basis and sees the good work it does in the community. "This is good because it puts this money directly back into our …
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Missed some news this week? Here's your weekly recap.
Lots of flooding in the area after constant rain in the beginning of the week. That flooding caused Spring-Ford football to be postponed until Saturday afternoon. In other news, the Spring City Borough Council nominated a new police chief in Art Brown. His position is pending now. Limerick's Board of Supervisors met for regular business and Royersford Community Day was on Saturday. Did you miss something this week? Check out the top 12 stories from the first official week of September:
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Alyson D'Alessandro
3:42 pm on Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Band Mom, if you're referring to Patch coverage, Andreina Erwin and George Growcott wrote a great series of blog posts on the band's awesome season, with tons of photos, which we featured regularly on the front page during the season. You can see one of those posts here: http://limerick.patch.com/blog_posts/spring-ford-marching-rams-bring-home-the-gold more ›