The Salisbury Township assistant manager is retiring.<\/p>\n
The Salisbury Township board of commissioners voted 4-0, with one commissioner absent at the Oct. 9 meeting, to approve a motion to accept the retirement of Salisbury Township Assistant Manager-Community Development Director Alessandro \u201cSandy\u201d Nicolo.<\/p>\n
Salisbury Township Commissioner Alex Karol said, \u201cI will sadly make the motion,\u201d and Commissioner Alok Patnaik said, \u201cI will sadly second the motion\u201d to bring the motion to a vote.<\/p>\n
Nicolo\u2019s last township meeting as assistant manager is expected to be the next meeting, 7 p.m. Oct. 23, in the meeting room of the municipal building, 2900 S. Pike Ave.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll miss everyone,\u201d Nicolo said.<\/p>\n
Also, at the Oct. 9 meeting, commissioners voted 4-0 for resolutions to approve:<\/p>\n
\u2014 Resolution approving the Preliminary-Final Plan with Itemized Waivers and Deferrals for the Girl Scouts\u2019 Adventure Place at Mountain House Project, 2638 W. Rock Road.<\/p>\n
Board of Commissioners\u2019 Vice President Rodney Conn made the motion, seconded by Karol, to bring the resolution to a vote.<\/p>\n
The township planning commission voted 6-0 with one planner absent at its June 25 meeting to recommend approval by commissioners of revisions to the Girl Scouts\u2019 project.<\/p>\n
The Girl Scouts of Eastern PA, Inc. proposes to expand the existing nonprofit, private, recreation facility and convert an existing single-family, detached dwelling (Persing House) into camp activity space. A previously-approved new activity building (Mountain House) was removed from the project.<\/p>\n
The Salisbury Township Zoning Hearing Board approved the project April 16.<\/p>\n
The 17.6503-acre property is in the CR, Conservation Residential Zoning District, west of the Interstate 78 interchange at Summit Lawn on South Mountain.<\/p>\n
The Girl Scouts acquired the 3,238-square-feet Persing House, 2660 W. Rock Road, on 40 acres, 38 acres of which was donated to Wildlands Conservancy, in 2021. Persing House will be renovated for use as meeting rooms, with bathrooms added and with a \u201cTrading Post\u201d for the sale of Girl Scouts\u2019 items.<\/p>\n
Township zoners voted unanimously at its March 9, 2020, hearing to approve the project, first presented to township planners at its Dec. 10, 2019, meeting.<\/p>\n
The Girl Scouts have owned and operated Mountain House since 1942. An estimated 80 Girl Scouts are expected to attend the camp, 7:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. weekly June to mid-August.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the Girl Scouts\u2019 project we\u2019ve been talking about since before COVID,\u201d attorney Stephanie A. Kobal, Fitzpatrick Lentz & Bubba, said at the Oct. 9 meeting.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Girl Scouts\u2019 needs were very much different at that time,\u201d Kobal said. \u201cThe Girl Scouts realized they could have less impact to the residents, less impervious surface, less trees removal impact.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014 Resolution denying the Sheffield Square North Land Development Submission, 206 E. Lynnwood St.<\/p>\n
Patnaik made the motion, seconded by Karol, to bring the resolution to a vote.<\/p>\n
The resolution was denied \u201cwithout prejudice.\u201d<\/p>\n
Attorney John F. \u201cJack\u201d Gross, Managing Partner at Gross McGinley, LLP, township solicitor, said the project could be resubmitted.<\/p>\n
Township commissioners had granted a time extension to the Preliminary-Final Land Development Plan for Sheffield Square at its May 9, 2024, meeting. A sketch plan for Sheffield Square North, presented at the township planners\u2019 Jan. 26, 2022, meeting, indicated 82 town houses on 10.39 acres.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve done numerous extensions,\u201d Debra J. Brinton, board president, said of the project before the vote.<\/p>\n
The development is undertaken by 7D Development Group, Douglassville, Berks County, said Zachery Arnold, project director.<\/p>\n
\u2014 Ordinance amending Audible Alarms (False Alarms) Regulations. Karol made the motion, seconded by Patnaik, to bring the ordinance to a vote.<\/p>\n
\u2014 Motion authorizing the hiring of an Entry-Level Police Officer from the Eligibility List. Karol made the motion, seconded by Conn, to bring the motion to a vote. Salisbury Township Chief of Police Donald Sabo said one of the officers on the eligibility list accepted an offer from another police department.<\/p>\n
In his report to commissioners, Salisbury Township Director, Public Works, Jim Levernier said the Salisbury Township Public Works Department will conduct curbside branch collection for residents during the week of Oct. 13.<\/p>\n
Residents were to have placed their branches (clean; no other yard waste mixed in) at the curb after 6 p.m. Oct. 12 for crews to collect during the week.<\/p>\n
Branches may be no larger than five-feet long and five inches in diameter, and they should be bundled and tied with twine. An open container may be used for small twigs, but no bags or lids are permitted. No more than five bundles-cans per property is permitted.<\/p>\n
PRESS PHOTO BY PAUL WILLISTEINSalisbury Township Assistant Manager-Community Development Director Alessandro \u201cSandy\u201d Nicolo will retire in the coming weeks. Nicolo\u2019s last township meeting as assistant manager is expected to be Oct. 23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Salisbury Township assistant manager is retiring. The Salisbury Township board of commissioners voted 4-0, with one commissioner…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-2389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}