The Girl Scouts Adventure Place at Mountain Home project is on the agenda of the Salisbury Township Planning Commission, 7 p.m. March 27, in the meeting room of the municipal building, 2900 S. Pike Ave.

According to the meeting agenda on the township website, planners will review the land development plan submitted by Girl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania, Inc. to construct a new, 3,177-square-foot, single-story multipurpose building with supporting infrastructure, including an additional parking area, at 2638 W. Rock Road.

The 15.2128-acre property, improved as a nonprofit recreation area, is in the CR, Conservation Residential zoning district.

The Salisbury Township Board of Commissioners voted 4-0 with one commissioner absent at its Feb. 22 meeting to approve a motion accepting a time extension to Aug. 31 for the Girl Scouts’ land development for Adventure Place at Mountain Home, located west of the Interstate 78 interchange at Summit Lawn on South Mountain.

The one-story with basement building will be heated; have bathrooms with showers, sinks and flush toilets; activities rooms; staff office; trading post for purchase of Girl Scouts items and a paved parking area for 15 vehicles.

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection approved the project’s Sewage Facilities Planning Module, required for a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit.

Township commissioners voted 5-0 at its Sept. 14, 2023, meeting to approve revisions to the project’s sewage module.

The Salisbury Township Zoning Hearing Board voted unanimously 5-0 at its March 9, 2020, meeting to approve the Girl Scouts’ appeal for a special exception to construct the building.

The Girl Scouts submitted a sketch plan for Adventure Place to the Salisbury Township Planning Commission at its Dec. 10, 2019, meeting.

Summit Lawn homeowners have voiced their concerns at zoning, planning and commissioners’ meetings about the project’s impact on residential wells, stormwater runoff and traffic.

The site now has on-site water facilities and no latrine sanitary sewage facilities. There are no indoor bathroom facilities at the camp.

The camp has tent platforms, pavilion, lodge, cabin, garage, kiln, fire pit, other buildings and a gravel road.

The Girl Scouts have owned the site and operated it as a private recreation area since 1952.

Also on the March 27 agenda, planners will review the Act 537 plan update as prepared by South Whitehall Township.

According to the agenda item, there are no major changes and the substantive content of the mapping related to the sewer franchise area has not changed within this revised draft Act 537 Plan Update from the last version reviewed by the planning commission Sept. 27, 2023.

Salisbury Township has an intermunicipal agreement with South Whitehall Township.

A resolution on the Act 537 update is expected to be on the agenda of the 7 p.m. March 28 board of commissioners meeting.

At the Feb. 28 Salisbury Township Planning Commission meeting, an application was withdrawn and another application was recommended for an extension.

Withdrawn was an application for review of the land development project submitted by Bedminster Building Company, for an eight-unit garden apartment building with supporting site improvements on 1.09 acres of unimproved land, 1350 E. Susquehanna St., in the R4, Medium Density Residential zoning district. Access to the property is proposed from Van Vetchen Avenue.

At the Feb. 28 meeting, planners voted 6-0 to recommend a 60-day extension, which commissioners voted 5-0 to approve at the March 14 township meeting, for the land development project submitted by Thomas P. Williams Jr. to maintain two building additions, an accessory apartment and site improvements for a property at 2844 S. Pike Ave., utilized as a construction company headquarters in the C2, Neighborhood Commercial zoning district.