Playing by the rules

I noticed a theme running through the November West Marlborough Township supervisors' meeting: the difficulty of keeping track of what's going on in a sparsely populated township without a full-time staff. Sharp-eyed residents brought to the supervisors' attention a few concerns they'd noticed in their travels:
1. A corn crib built much too close to the road along Hicks Road.

2. A structure that's being built along Wilson Road that, according to the zoning permit issued July 1, was supposed to be a barn but certainly looks like a garage with an apartment upstairs, complete with dormer windows.
The supervisors said they'd look into the situations.
"If you see something out of whack, we would appreciate a phone call," chairman Bill Wylie said.
The supervisors also said that Richard Hayne had agreed to reimburse the township for the costs of legal advertisements for the two conditional-use hearings that he canceled on short notice. You'll recall that Mr. Hayne is seeking permission to process and wholesale cheese and tomato products at his Doe Run Farm in Springdell. He has already been making the prize-winning cheese for months and selling it at his Terrain shop and local farmers' markets. No new hearing was scheduled, but the board warned they'd issue a cease-and-desist order on his cheese-making operations if they didn't receive an application from his reps in the near future.