NORTH WHITEHALL TWP., Pa. — A 44-home development planned in North Whitehall Township will go before township supervisors after the township planning commission and the developer worked out remaining issues Tuesday.
The Board of Supervisors already approved plans for the second phase of The Ridings at Parkland, a subdivision of new single-family homes planned near Spruce Street and Timber Lane.
“We went through a lot of revisions with outside agencies… and so a lot of times we struggle with making this person happy, and then that creates a comment for the other person. That was the last revision that we were making to kind of keep everybody happy.”Tuskes Homes Director of Land Development Phil Malitsch
However, developer Tuskes Homes decided to modify one of the site’s three stormwater basins, touching off a new round of planning commission review.
“We went through a lot of revisions with outside agencies… and so a lot of times we struggle with making this person happy, and then that creates a comment for the other person,” Tuskes Homes Director of Land Development Phil Malitsch said.
“That was the last revision that we were making to kind of keep everybody happy.”
Working through dozens of items
Going into Tuesday’s planning commission meeting, representatives of Tuskes Homes and commissioners appeared to disagree whether township officials could offer comments on parts of the plan that have not changed since they were last approved.
Over more than an hour and a half of discussion, the developer and the commission worked through dozens of items, most resolved by adding additional information to drawings, documenting the work of outside agencies or pushing some decisions to later in the land development process.
Tuskes Homes also will seek a handful of cleanup waivers clarifying some permissions for the project, including several waivers Malitsch said they previously received.
The developer will not, however, need to redesign the project or its stormwater systems to comply with new planning commission comments.
That would have been a potentially expensive and complicated prospect so late in the approval process.
The planning commission voted unanimously Tuesday to recommend approving the revised plans.
