Tax freeze in Pennsbury

Pennsbury Township residents
won’t be facing any tax hike for 2012.

Supervisors’ Chairman Wendell
Fenton, during a brief conversation on the 2012 budget during the Nov. 16 board
meeting, said there would be no tax increase. Supervisors will vote on the
budget —balanced at $1.139 million — during a Dec. 13 meeting.

That December meeting would
have been held on Dec. 21, but Township Manager Kathy Howley said that would
conflict with Christmas week.

Also during the November
meeting, supervisors gave final approval for renovations at Crosslands
Retirement Community. Part of the deal includes Crosslands paying a $4,000 fee
in lieu of open space to the township.

While there is no increase in
density at the community, there will be seven more beds available for health
care.

Township Solicitor Tom Oeste
said the fee could have been as high as $14,000 because of those seven beds,
but instead they altered the calculation to treat the seven as two dwelling
units.

Supervisors granted conditional
use for the project in July. The hearing had been in June.

The project includes an
additional 27,000 square feet to be added to the health and wellness center and an increase
in the number of parking spaces from 93 to 110. The number of actual
residential units will remain the same. The extra seven beds are in the
personal care and nursing areas.

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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