Sunday, December 6, 2015

NEWLIN: The state attorney general gets involved

From what I hear, the Monday, Dec. 14, meeting of the Newlin Township supervisors is going to be packed with angry residents.
As I reported a few weeks ago, the state Attorney General's office has found that Newlin Township's controversial zoning ordinance places excessive regulations on farms and other agricultural businesses, thus violating the state's Agricultural Communities and Rural Environment (ACRE) law.
You may recall the issue: the new ordinance raised the ire of many township residents because it required the owners of many horse boarding facilities to seek an expensive special exception from the township's zoning hearing board if they wanted to continue the operations they'd been running for years. 
The state Attorney General's office suggested numerous and substantive wording changes that the township supervisors need to make to bring the ordinance into compliance and warned that a lawsuit could follow if the supervisors don't amend the ordinance.
The meeting of the supervisors (Janie Baird, Rob Pearson and Bill Kelsall) will start at 8 p.m. at the Lenfest Center, 1199 Cannery Road.

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