Penn Township Rezoning
Penn Township Rezones for Industrial Activity
At the last Penn Township Planning Commission meeting, the Commission discussed plans to change the zoning on a large area of the northeast corner of the township from rural resource to industrial commerce.
The Penn Township Commissioners have been working behind closed doors since February 2024 with a consultant company, Strategic Solutions, to rezone this area without telling the residents most affected. The proposed rezoning will impact residents living at Walton’s Crossing, and residents living near Frye, Bouquet, Walton, and Dutch Hollow roads.
Attention!
Do you live at or near Walton's Crossing, Frye, Bouquet, Walton, and Dutch Hollow roads?
In 2015 Penn Township proposed expanding the current industrial zone along Walton and Melon road, but due to outcry from residents, that proposal was scrapped. Now Penn Township commissioners are seeking to expand this industrial zone even further making way for uses like truck stops, compressor stations, gas processing facilities, warehousing, and other heavy industrial uses.
The planning commission will vote on recommendations for this rezoning on November 4th and it appears that a small list of residents who own land in the proposed new zoning lines will be notified by October 20th. It is unclear if other impacted residents will be notified.
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Future Township Meetings are as follows: November 4 at 6:30 PM (planning commission), November 13 at 7:00 PM (caucus meeting), November 20 at 7:00 PM (hearing). If you can only make one meeting, make it November 20th! This is the public hearing for the rezone. Residents and property owners impacted by this change should plan to go to the planning commission and board of commissioners meetings on these dates to voice their concerns about these changes.
Here is the Township's anticipated schedule:
Protect PT will continue to provide up-to-date information about developments and future meeting dates. Come back to this webpage to stay up to date, or stay posted via email! Click the link below to submit our Penn Township rezoning interest form.
The only person with the power to stop this rezoning from turning your quiet, rural community into an industrial zone is YOU.
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