North Strabane Closes Hearing On Expansion Project

North Strabane Township Supervisors had a busy night of meetings on Tuesday. Starting off, supervisors reopened a public hearing that began on January 18. That hearing concerned a 5 acre, 24 unit expansion to the Greenwood Village development. In a previous public hearing residents had concerns about traffic on Garden Street and sight line difficulties as Garden intersected Rt. 980. Also at issue were traffic concerns as Locust Avenue intersected Rt. 19. The developer of the plan did a new traffic study as directed by the township. Residents were not happy as only an in depth study was done on the intersection of Garden Street and Rt. 980. Residents were not happy with the times selected to do the study either. Supervisors asked the developer to do another study but they refused. They stated that the study performed was exactly what the supervisors requested and it was. Residents complained about the possibility of accidents on Garden Street due to its very thin nature and cars parked along the road. Supervisors closed the meeting and will have 45 days to approve the conditional use application that was applied for. Supervisors then denied a text change to a zoning ordinance citing too little information as to the effects it would have on other zones. They then conducted their non legislative meeting. Committee reports from public works indicate an increase in paving materials costs. Supervisors will meet for their voting meeting on February 22.