If you take your usual shortcut on Fairview Road between East Susquehanna Street and East Emmaus Avenue, you may want to slow down your vehicle.

That’s because the maximum speed limit has been reduced to 35 mph.

By a unanimous 5-0 vote at the March 10 meeting, the Salisbury Township Board of Commissioners approved an ordinance to amend traffic regulations in the Code of Ordinances to establish maximum speed limits on Fairview Road.

Commissioner James Seagreaves made the motion to bring the ordinance amendment to a vote, seconded by Commissioner Debra Brinton.

The ordinance is effective immediately. Signs stating the 35 mph speed limit are to be installed along Fairview, by which one of the Laubach Park entrances and parking lots can be accessed.

“It’s a state road [Fairview] and they [Pennsylvania Department of Transportation] had requested it,” Assistant Manager-Director of Finance and Acting Township Manager Cathy Bonaskiewich said of the speed limit reduction.

In other business, township commissioners voted 5-0 to approve two other ordinances, which were also discussed at the Feb. 25 township workshop.

Amendments to the township burning ordinance were approved after Commissioner Joanne Ackerman made the motion, seconded by Seagreaves, to bring the ordinance to a vote.

“What we currently have on the books is pretty vague,” Bonaskiewich said.

“Our head fire inspector Dustin Grow really took the lead on developing this,” Bonaskiewich said of the ordinance amendments.

Amendments to the township traffic regulations for 12 new stop signs at 11 intersections in the township were approved after Ackerman made the motion, seconded by Martucci to bring the ordinance to a vote.

The location of the stop signs was based on the township safety committee after review by the township police department, Bonaskiewich said.

“It’s a matter of placing stop signs where they should have been in the first place. It was probably overlooked,” Bonaskiewich said.

There was no workshop following the March 10 meeting.

Commissioners met in executive session after the meeting to discuss “personnel and possible litigation” matters, Commissioner President James. A. Brown announced.