[MA-RPC] FW: [at-l] Warehouse Hearing - Silver Spring Township, PA

[Walt Daniels]

More on PA land use 

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From: at-l-bounces at backcountry.net [mailto:at-l-bounces at backcountry.net] On
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Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 3:30 PM
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Subject: [at-l] Warehouse Hearing - Silver Spring Township, PA

Still following this story...

http://www.cumberlink.com/articles/2005/12/13/news/news07.txt

"Supervisors have reminded DiSanto how at hearings years ago Appalachian
Trail advocates expressed concern about allowing an industrial park so close
to the trail.
The warehouse location is now closer to the trail than the agreement
stipulated.
*Melanie Wertz represented the Cumberland Valley Appalachian Trail Club*
-- local volunteers who help maintain and monitor the trail under a memo of
understanding with the National Park Service.
"We have been involved with this project since day one," said Wertz, who
asked the zoning board to stand firm and deny the Triple Crown appeal to
protect the trail.
Wertz said her group met several times with DiSanto and township officials
to push the need for an adequate buffer zone between the trail and
industrial park.
Shifting the building 30 feet to the west is significant, Wertz said, adding
the buffer zone along that stretch of trail is already at its narrowest
point in the region.
She added the warehouse not only obstructs the view hikers have of the
valley, but is a potential source of light, noise and air pollution from the
trucks and trash from the site.
*Michele Miller, who represents the Appalachian Trail Conservatory*, said
the developer should be held to the agreed-upon land development plan and
make efforts to mitigate the impact the warehouse would have on the trail."

Steve
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