Friday, March 1, 2013
Montgomery Township Supervisors authorized advertisement of a public hearing to amend the zoning code for off-street parking. Now, it's illegal to back out of a driveway or lot onto every street in the township.
If you live anywhere in Montgomery Township, and you back out of your driveway, you're breaking the law. The township will look to amend that this month. Bruce Shoupe, director of zonning and planning for the township, requested supervisors Monday night authorize advertisement for a March 25 public hearing to amend the zoning code for the Required Parking" section under Article 19: Off-Street Parking and Loading. Shoupe said the section was originally put in the zoning code in 1967, and later amended in 1981. Shoupe said, per the existing ordinance, every vehicle should be turning around in a driveway or lot and exit frontways onto township streets. "It directly relates as to how cars are not allowed to back out into roadways," Shoupe told…
Sunday, January 27, 2013
W.B. Homes has requested a public hearing for a zoning change for a 12-acre parcel at Wambold and Mainland roads, adjacent to the former Mainland Inn
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Sunday, January 27
A 48-townhome development could be on the horizon in Towamencin Township. W.B. Homes has requested a public hearing for a zoning change of a 12-acre parcel on Wambold Road at Mainland Road, next to the former Mainland Inn, according to The Reporter Online. The parcel was created by the Route 309 Connector Project. The newspaper reports Towamencin Township Supervisors agreed to the hearing “through consensus” at its Jan. 23 meeting. The property would need to be changed from Light Industrial to Mixed Residential for the development to occur, according to the report. The 48 townhomes would be in 12 four-unit buildings, according to the article. The tract is owned by the Heck family, who has been unsuccessful in selling the property since …
Friday, September 21, 2012
Lansdale Borough Council unanimously approved the sign changes to awning and wall signs Wednesday night
It must have sucked to be a sign on Lansdale's Main Street. Until Wednesday, you could only be one type of sign — rectangular. Now, signs have their freedom in Lansdale. Circular signs, square signs and any shape of sign up to 60 square feet are now permitted on walls in Lansdale Borough. In addition, signs on awnings aren't limited to just the end panels and skirts of awnings. They can be on the front of awnings now. Borough council held a public hearing Wednesday night to amend two parts of the Lansdale sign ordinance of the zoning code. They later voted 8-0 to approve the changes. Council President Matt West was asbent from the meeting. Solicitor Mark Hosterman testified that the change to the ordinance on awnings would limit signs on …
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Montgomery Township Supervisors will hold a public hearing July 23 to change regulations in the Billboard Overlay District
Eight millimeters makes all the difference between $500,000 and $180,000. That difference is all too familiar to billboard owners and advertisers. Supervisors will hold a public hearing July 23 to amend the billboard ordinance to reflect the permission of a pixel pitch no larger than 20mm from its current 12mm regulation. A pixel pitch or dot pitch is a specification for pixel-based device that describes the distance, for example, between dots of the same color on the inside of a display screen. Joe Felici, vice president of Cheltenham-based Keystone Outdoor Advertising, is one such owner. The company owns, locally, two billboards in Cheltenham Township along Route 309. Felici had qualms about the language in Montgomery Township's Digital…
Thursday, April 19, 2012
WB Homes has proposed to develop townhomes and twins on the former Class A Residential property
WB Homes is one step closer to bringing its Williamson Square land development to Fourth Street and North Line Street on the former Fenstermacher Roofing location. Lansdale Borough Council held a public hearing Wednesday night to amend the borough zoning map to change parcels at 405 and 421 N. Line Street from Residential Class A to Residential Class B, and to amend text in the Class B zoning to permit unlotted developments on the parcel. Despite protest from a handful of residents to keep the Residential A zoning intact, borough council went on to unanimously approve the zoning change. The applicant, Prospect Acquisitions LP, is an affiliate of WB Homes. WB Homes and Prospect Acquisitions must go through the land development process, …
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Montgomery Flex have applied for a charter school to open in Montgomeryville
The group of teachers, administrators and real estate professionals calling themselves Montgomery Flex have applied to the North Penn School District to open the Montgomery Flex Charter School in Montgomeryville. The school board has set a public hearing for the application this Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at the Educational Services Center. There will be an information session tonight at Trinity Lutheran Church in Lansdale at 7 p.m. in Rooms 125 and 127. The plan is to review expectations at the board meeting. The application will be discussed and the concept of the school will be explained to interested taxpayers. A question and answer session will follow. Those wishing to attend the meeting are asked to park in the parking lot near the …
Concerned Citizen
4:02 pm on Sunday, March 10, 2013
Rules, rules and more rules in Mont. Twp. They create their own added rules to the building code, because I guess they can, costing residents plenty extra. Liability - it's all about liability. These folks are seriously scared into making ridiculous out of control rules for everything. more ›