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Jackson supervisors to consider zone change
It would pave way for new warehouse
Source:
Cranberry Eagle
Written by:
Bob Schultz
Published:
February 24, 2010
JACKSON TWP — The township supervisors will consider whether flex space/warehouse developments can be built in its mixed commercial office zoning district. The zoning change would pave the way for a warehouse on Route 19.
The supervisors voted 2 to 1 Thursday night, with supervisor Chairman Roy Huffman opposed, to advertise the potential ordinance change and to set a public hearing.
The earliest the public hearing could be held would be the April supervisors meeting.
The requested zoning change stemmed from a request in January from The Buncher Co., which wants to build a warehouse/office development on Route 19.
It owns 180 acres north of Zehner School Road on both sides of Route 19 that includes the original site of Baldinger's Foods from All Nations.
The company plans to initially develop about 55 acres for warehouses.
Huffman is against the change because there has been no information provided on what the effects of this type of development would mean in all of the mixed commercial office (MCO) zoning districts.
He said if the change is approved that the supervisors "would poke a significant hole in its ordinance."
But supervisors Gary Goehring and Ron Lutz support setting the public hearing and likely bringing the issue to a vote.
Goehring said the proposed Buncher Corp. development "is a good place for it." He said property owners should have the right to do what they want with their property.
Lutz said he ran for office on the platform of private property rights. For years, he said, the township has been limiting what property owners could do with their property.
Lutz said the township has a reputation of being the "no" township for development.
"I'm tired of the 'no' mentality. I ran to change that mentality," he said, adding that the township in the past has done everything it can to stop new business growth.
Township manager Rich Crown told the supervisors, "This is not a Buncher ordinance. This is for the entire MCO district. You need to look at the entire MCO district."
Flex space refers to a flexibility of development among office space and others uses such as manufacturing, laboratory and warehouse.
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