Two plans approved; one plan tabled in Salisbury
BY PAUL WILLISTEIN
pwillistein@tnonline.com
Two plans have been approved and one plan was tabled by the Salisbury Township Planning Commission.
Planners voted 5-0 in separate votes at the June 26 meeting to approve two plans and table a third plan.
The first plan approved is a minor subdivision project submitted by Robert J. and Kristen N. Bennett to subdivide properties at 2000 Nottingham Road and 2159 Overhill Road into three parcels.
The 2000 Nottingham Road parcel will be 116,667-square-feet and continue as a single-family, detached dwelling.
The 2159 Overhill Road parcel will be a vacant residential lot of 58,774-square-feet.
A new lot between the two parcels will be a vacant residential lot of 46,287-square-feet with frontage along Nottingham Road.
Each property is in the R1, Rural Residential zoning district.
The planners voted 5-0 in a separate vote to approve waivers for the project concerning the road width and installation of curbs and sidewalks.
“The streets are not that wide. The trees would have to be cut,” Attorney Richard B, Somach of Norris Mclaughlin, P.A. law firm, representing the Bennetts, said.
“In Lehigh Parkway, there are no sidewalks and curbs,” Somach said.
The second plan approved is a minor subdivision project by CMB Properties to subdivide the property at 1507 Lehigh Ave. into two parcels.
The Lot 1 will be 69,319-square-feet with frontage along East Susquehanna Street.
The Lot 2 will be 9,149-square-feet with frontage along Lehigh Avenue.
“The only concern we have is there’s a Salisbury Township sewer easement,” Stan Wojcienchowski, department head, Municipal Engineering Services, Barry Isett Associates Inc., township consulting engineering firm, said.
“This has to go to the Lehigh Valley Planning Commission,” Wojcienchowski said.
The property is a commercial storage facility, which was previously granted a special exception.
The Lot 1 will remain a commercial storage facility with frontage along East Susquehanna Street.
“The property is zoning-compliant. It’s a transfer station for wood,” Salisbury Township Planning and Zoning Officer Kerry Rabold said.
The Lot 2 will be a vacant residential lot with frontage along Lehigh Avenue.
“There are no plans to build on it at this point,” Attorney William G. Malkames of Malkames Law, representing CMB Properties, said.
The property is in the C2, Neighborhood Commercial zoning district along East Susquehanna Street and the R4, Medium Density Residential zoning district along Lehigh Avenue.
Planners voted 5-0 to table a review of a major subdivision project submitted by Thomas P. Williams Jr.
The project proposes to subdivide one lot, 621 E. Lynnwood St., into seven lots for the development of six twin dwellings and one single-family detached dwelling.
The overall parcel is 40,800-square-feet. The new twin lots will each be 5,400-square-feet. The new single-family detached lot will be 8,400-square-feet.
The property, which is in the R4, Medium Density Residential zoning district, was last utilized as a greenhouse.
Salisbury Township meetings in the municipal building, 2900 S. Pike Ave., include: 7 p.m. July 10, zoning hearing board; 7 p.m. July 11, board of commissioners; 7 p.m. July 24, planning commission and 7 p.m. July 25, board of commissioners.