Upper Milford supervisors last week assured residents the township has already started legal proceedings against Paul Sarver, who is continuing to rent his barn and six-bedroom home at 6575 Vera Cruz Road for wedding events, despite being denied a permit for this activity by the zoning hearing board.

Peter Brown, of Queens Lane, presented a petition to supervisors, signed by 60 residents, asking the board to issue a cease and desist order for Sarver’s enterprise, which Brown said is clearly a commercial business. Brown said Sarver is continuing to advertise the venue, Meadowbrook Farms, on airbnb and Internet wedding sites, even though the zoning board denied his request for a variance at a packed hearing earlier this spring.

That hearing came after the facility was used for several weddings last summer and Sarver was informed he needed permission from the zoning hearing board to use the property for a commercial venture.

Brown said despite the board denying Sarver’s request, several weddings have been booked on the site for this summer.

A handful of other residents who are neighbors of Sarver also attended the May 19 meeting and said music and traffic generated by the weddings held on the site are disrupting the quiet residential nature of the neighborhood. Overflow parking is being allowed on the property of nearby Old Zionsville Fellowship Church, the neighbors said.

“It seems the owners [of the site] are thumbing their noses at the zoning ordinance, the supervisors and township residents,” Brown said.

“The procedure to follow up on this is already in the works,” supervisors Chairman George DeVault told the residents.

“Alan [Zoning Enforcement Officer Alan Brokate] has already started civil procedures,” Township Manager Daniel DeLong added.

“I really feel bad for the people who have spent the money to have their wedding there,” Supervisor Robert Sentner commented.