Minutes March 12, 2018 Monday, 4:30 p.m. REGULAR MEETING Commissioner s Board Room UNION COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION 155 North 15 th Street I. Call to Order: Chairman Donald Bowman called the meeting to order at 4:30 p.m. Planning Commission Members Present: Donald Bowman Allan Grundstrom Jim Murphy Susan Benfer Jeff Koppel Ben Ranck Sally Farmer Tony Mike Jeff Thompson Planning Commission Members Absent: None Others Present: Shawn McLaughlin, Planning Director Pam Mabus, Planner Jeremiah Runkle, Solicitor Janice Wagner, Staff Mike Swank, P.E., Steinbeck Eng. Alan Wagner, PLS Elias & Christiana Maurer, guests II. Approval of Minutes: Being no additions or corrections to the minutes there was a motion by Tony Mike to approve the February 12, 2018 meeting minutes as mailed. Second by Allan Grundstrom. Motion carried. III. Committee Reports: A. Subdivision Report February 2018 Commission Actions 1. Dollar General - Hartleton Boro (1 lot), comm., 1.53 acs., final. This plan depicts a subdivision and land development to construct a Dollar General Store. A revised plan was submitted on March 8, 2018. There are number of items that need to be addressed. The applicant is requesting waivers/modifications to the plan. The first waiver request pertains to Table 512-3 - the Pavement Section Details, this does not comply with the standards in the ordinance. Following a lengthy discussion there was a motion by Tony Mike to deny the waiver request and have this done according to the Subdivision and Land Development Ordnance for consistency unless the applicant can demonstrate undue hardship as to why this should be granted. Second by Jeff Koppel. Motion carried. The second waiver request pertains to Section 516.A.6 the applicant requests a waiver to allow direct driveway access to SR 0045.
Meeting Minutes March 12, 2018 Page 2 This waiver was tabled until April 9, 2018. The third waiver the applicant is requesting is to allow a distance less than 400 feet between driveways for developments accessing a minor arterial. This request was tabled until April 9, 2018. Staff Actions 1. Carmen Englehart Lewis Twp., (1 lot), res., 0.49 acs., add-on, final. 2. Miles Wilson West Buffalo Twp., (1 lot), rec., 0.15 acs.,add-on, final. Paul Maurer Sketch plan - West Buffalo Township. They are proposing to correct the estate of Paul Maurer. The Maurer s are planning on correcting the property of Lucien and Arlene Maurer by doing a small add-on to get the structures associated with this on their own lot. The remaining 36 acre tract with the store, cabin, and other buildings the family intends to tear down the structures. This is a bad location for the existing driveways as far as site distance. They plan to remove the whole existing driveway area so it is not accessed any more. The remaining land they will split amongst the three brothers. Lot #3 will access off Sand Mountain Road and lots 1 and 2 will access off S.R. 192. What they are proposing is to exchange the previous two accesses for a driveway at the existing Woods Road that is on lot #2 and for a new driveway that does not exist on lot #1. Mr. Wagner is asking for a waiver for driveways or an understanding that they are exchanging the new driveway for the pre-existing ones. Mr. Wagner is looking for clarification is this simply a wash that he doesn t have to ask for a modification or b) that he does have to request a modification for moving the driveways. Attorney Runkle suggested he request a modification for moving the driveways when he submits a formal plan. There was a motion by Jeff Thompson and second by Jeff Koppel to ratify the staff actions. Motion carried. The planning commission went into an executive session at 5:27 pm to discuss legal matters. The regular meeting reconvened at 5:55 pm. V. Correspondence and Information: A. Annual Report This was an enclosure in the agenda packet that discussed various activities conducted by the planning commission for the year 2017. Members feel this has a lot of good information in it. VI. Director s Report: Mr. McLaughlin reported staff completed the municipal outreach, Mr. McLaughlin visited Lewis, West Buffalo, Hartley and Limestone Townships and Hartleton Borough and John DelVecchio attended Mifflinburg Borough; met with an existing small manufacturer; attended MPO meeting; he and Pam met with DEP regarding sewage planning issues; attended the Career Link business services meeting; met with DCNR staff in Harrisburg regarding trail and recreation issues; attended a meeting in East Buffalo Township on the adaptive traffic signals; met with our county web designer on redoing the economic
Meeting Minutes March 12, 2018 Page 3 development content; dealt with a number of bridge construction issues including the Iddings Bridge in Mifflinburg pertaining to sewage manholes; attended a Lewisburg Middle School program pitching business ideas; Shawn reported the adaptive traffic signals are not yet live and are in the data collection phase. This will hopefully go live the beginning of April. VII. Old Business: None VIII. New Business: A. Sewage Planning Requirements Staff received a plan for a 20 acre lot that had two existing cabins with one having a septic system and the other had two privies from the 1930 s-40 s. DEP says this does not qualify for a non-building waiver since this is seasonal cabins this plan would need to do sewage testing. DEP also requires a form to be filled out and executed when you have a plan with a note on the plan for a non-building waiver. This would require the SEO to look at the site and make sure the existing system is operational. B. Forest Conservation Planning To be discussed next month. IX. Public Comment: None X. Adjournment: Being no further business there was a motion by Jeff Koppel and second by Ben Ranck to adjourn the meeting at 6:13 p.m. Motion carried. Jeff Koppel, Secretary Date