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Newtown Residents Dissatisfied With Toll Brothers

Newtown Residents Dissatisfied With Toll Brothers | Newtown News of Interest | Scoop.it

 

 At the December 11, 2019, Newtown Board of Supervisors meeting, several residents commented that they were not adequately notified by Toll Brothers of the conditional use hearing for a proposal to construct a cluster of 41 single-family homes on a 152-acre parcel at Rt. 413 and Twining Bridge Road (read "Toll Brothers Submits New Proposal For Rt. 413 Property" https://patch.com/pennsylvania/newtown-pa/toll-brothers-submits-new-proposal-rt-413-property See the plan here). They also did not realize that the hearing would be continued at a later date in January, 2020.

 

Resident Joseph Mcatee voiced concern about the possibility that the continuance would not be advertised. "The problem with that is it almost looks like the applicant decided that instead of having the community know about the meeting, they could continue it [and] not have it advertised," said Mcatee. "It just doesn't sound like a good community service," he noted.

 

"There's a little bit of bad faith here," said Eric Pomerantz. "They [Toll Bros] never came back to us …to work out the issues" as promised regarding the first proposal.

 

See a video clip of the "hearing" with comments from residents here.

 

[UPDATE: “Toll Bros Trash Original Plan for 41 "Luxury" Homes That Included a "Community Septic Field." Submits a New Plan with Connection to Public Sewers.”; http://sco.lt/7O5HG4]

johnmacknewtown's insight:

As reported in the December 4, 2019, Newtown Twp Plan Expiration Report, the Toll Bros Twining Bridge/Durham Road application (http://sco.lt/9Jw5Q0) is "tentatively" to be discussed at the Newtown Planning Commission meeting on December 17, 2019. NOTE: The official agenda on the Twp website, however, does not include that discussion. In any case, the meeting begins at 7:30 PM and will be held in the Newtown Township Public Meeting Room, 100 Municipal Drive, Newtown, PA. Also, read "Newtown Residents Dissatisfied With Toll Brothers" (http://bit.ly/2sqcHfi).

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