Birmingham Township supervisors Monday night awarded bids for the 2025 Road Program and for mowing several township-owned properties. They also set a date for a long-awaited hearing to amend the zoning code.
The road program went to AF Damon Co. for $182,147. Damon’s was the lowest of 11 bids received, according to Supervisors’ Chairman Scott Boorse. Damon’s bid was lower than the $340,000 that the township had budgeted for the program. The high bid was more than $271,529.
Roadmaster and Police Chief Tom Nelling said this year’s program includes the paving of Dorset Drive from 1126 Dorset to Route 926, half of Squire Cheyney Drive, and half of Gen. Cornwallis Drive. He said the reason for only doing half of those two roads is because Aqua just paved the other half two years ago.
“There’s no sense tearing up new pavement,” he said.
There will also be two inlet repairs, one at Sherbrook Drive and one at Independence Drive. Additionally, there will be some miscellaneous repairs on Old Wilmington Pike and Gen. Lafayette Boulevard.
Damon has done work for Birmingham and other townships in the greater Chadds Ford area for years.
The mowing bid went to Magic Landscaping for its proposal of $16,810. The bid includes approximately 27 mowings at Sandy Hollow and Birmingham Hill, and weed whacking on the embankment on Route 926 in front of the township building.
Other business
As reported in November, Birmingham Township is looking to update its zoning code by amending the selection on impervious coverage. To that end, the supervisors set March 3 as the date for that hearing.
As Boorse said in November and again during the Feb. 3 meeting, the current code is inconsistent. Different areas have different criteria. When Birmingham checked with its five adjoining townships, supervisors found that adjoining townships were consistent with a maximum of 20 percent impervious and 80 percent pervious, and that’s what’s proposed for Birmingham.
About Rich Schwartzman
Rich Schwartzman has been reporting on events in the greater Chadds Ford area since September 2001 when he became the founding editor of The Chadds Ford Post. In April 2009 he became managing editor of ChaddsFordLive. He is also an award-winning photographer.
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