{"id":646,"date":"2025-10-15T03:08:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T03:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/646\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T03:08:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T03:08:08","slug":"upper-darby-car-wash-hearing-postponed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/646\/","title":{"rendered":"Upper Darby car wash hearing postponed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The zoning hearing on a plan to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.delcotimes.com\/2025\/09\/24\/stressed-state-road-doesnt-need-car-wash-wiping-out-green-space-some-in-upper-darby-say\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> build a car wash<\/a> on 3 undeveloped acres in Drexel Hill has been postponed.<\/p>\n<p>The Tuesday night Upper Darby zoning board meeting scheduled to hear a request form property owner Route One Land Co. LLC for a variance to install pay stations and related improvements associated with a vehicle car wash been continued until the October meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed car wash site, known locally as the former Mozino property, would be next and behind the Speedway gas station and border the\u00a0100-year-old Idle Hour Tennis Club\u00a0over to Bella Vista Road, which would be directly impacted by the project.<\/p>\n<p>Community members oppose the development that they say would wipe out open space and exacerbate flooding issues of the nearby Darby Creek.<\/p>\n<p>Planning and zoning indicate the applicant asked for the continuance to revise the plan to make the proposal complaint with the Zoning Code.<\/p>\n<p>The plan will now be on the Oct. 28 meeting schedule.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The zoning hearing on a plan to build a car wash on 3 undeveloped acres in Drexel Hill&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[212,182,139,28,210,147,149,148,150],"class_list":["post-646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upper-darby","tag-delaware-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-top-stories-dtd","tag-upper-darby","tag-upper-darby-headlines","tag-upper-darby-news","tag-upper-darby-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646","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=646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}