North Strabane Moves Forward With Plans

The North Strabane Board of Supervisors moved forward with plans for their next legislative meeting.  The board recognized four structures to be demolished under the 2023 Community Development Block Grant allocation with the Washington County Redevelopment Authority.  Only one of those sites is owned by the township, a rare occurrence. The rest is from requests by property owners.  Property owners see value in not having to deal with unused property anymore, and they can move forward with using that land for future use.  The board discussed amendments to the township fee schedule for wireless facilities for cell phone service. Last month the board amended where the facilities could be placed.  Policies and procedures in place at the federal and state government levels, limit charges to people who want to and entities that want to place tower based non tower based small WCF within the township.  For a large tower base, the application fee will be $2,500. A non-tower which or antenna on a structure is $1,000. A small wireless facility, the cost is $1,000. A colocation on a wire, it’s $500. For small wireless right of way maintenance fee, it’s $270 a year.  After Linden Vue Drive residents submitted a request for a traffic calming policy will have a future meeting.  The area requested is between Linden Creek and Forest Lane Roads.  The first step is requesting and screening driver speeds. The traffic engineer agreed to proceed to step 2 of the policy, a discussion on fixing the issue. Future steps are supervisor approval and installation of approved measures.  It was the second time in the five years he’s been the township manager that Andrew Walz, has seen the calming policy request. The process depends on the PennDOT handbook and the grade of the road. It could be anything from speed humps, to rumble strips.  In similar news residents of Greenwood Drive are requesting stop signs at certain intersections. Recommendations may be in time for the legislative meeting later this month or in September.