Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Newtown Board of Supervisors approved the final draft of the Ashford cluster development plan for the Department of Environmental Protection's approval at a meeting on Sept. 26.
NEWTOWN SQUARE–The Rouse Group/Ashford Land Company sought final approval from the Newtown Board of Supervisors at a meeting on Monday evening for their Ashford cluster development planning module. The board unanimously approved the final draft of the 449-unit, sub-division cluster development of single-family homes located at the former John duPont estate and Biddle Farm off of Route 252/Newtown Street Road. The plan will now be sent to the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) for their approval. At a meeting in June, Tina Makoulian, a representative for The Rouse Group, said the plan was getting down to the fine details. Since then, Makoulian said DEP returned an earlier submission of their plan for administrative and technical …
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Thursday, August 18, 2011
The township will sell 103,000 gallons of capacity that according to Upper Providence Township Engineer James Kelly, it will not need in the foreseeable future.
MEDIA–A resolution to sell 103,000 gallons of Upper Providence's sewer capacity to Newtown Township was passed unanimously last Thursday evening. "Newtown is in dire need of capacity," Upper Providence Township Engineer James Kelly said. "We feel comfortable that we can let them have that [capacity] because our measured flows are being reduced as we speak because with the new system we're putting in, we're well below the standard acceptable rates." Upper Providence Township has more than 400,000 gallons of capacity, Kelly said. The township will sell Newtown Township the 103,000 gallons of capacity at the rate Upper Providence paid for the capacity initially. Newtown, who is currently working on their comprehensive plan and working on a …
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Friday, June 24, 2011
The Newtown Municipal Authority Engineer presented two special studies and two planning modules for approval from the Planning Commission on June 23.
NEWTOWN SQUARE–The bulk of a nearly three-hour Newtown Planning Commission meeting on Thursday evening was taken up by the township's Municipal Authority presentation. Kevin Matson of Kelly & Close Engineers, and the Municipal Authority engineer, presented two revisions to the Newtown Township Act 537 Plan involving two special studies with the Echo Valley and Florida Park sections in the township. Matson also presented two sewage facilities planning modules of component 4A, both owned by National Realty Corporation, L.P., for Olde Masters Golf and Retirement Village and parcels A, B, C, D of the Marville site. According to Matson, the township joined the Central Delaware County Authority's (CDCA) sewer network in 2007. The Department of …
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Patti Wilson
10:27 am on Friday, August 19, 2011
Newtown Township's Plan: "Indeed, it must be said that we were left with the impression during these proceedings that the Township had something less than a firm grasp on what it was committing to even at the time of the Resolution. When Township witnesses were pushed on whether a certain area would be sewered, answers tended to be vague and nonresponsive. (See, e.g., T. 86-88, 181-83, 292-93.) … more ›