Chadds Ford Township supervisors have scheduled a hearing that could begin paving the way for the construction of 107 townhouses on Brandywine Drive near Route 1. The board voted during its Dec. 30 workshop to authorize advertising the hearing for Feb. 4.
The hearing — requested by K. Hovnanian Homes — would accomplish two things if it goes the way Hovnanian wants. One part would change the zoning of a 20-plus-acre parcel along Brandywine Drive from PBC to a PBC-1 zoning district. The second part would allow townhouses to be built in a PBC-1 area with conditional use approval.
Current zoning does not allow residential use in a PBC, planned business campus, zoning district.
The specific parcel on Brandywine Drive is across from Hannum’s Harley Davidson motorcycle dealership and behind Painters Crossing shopping center and Brandywine Coachworks.
After more than a year, the township Planning Commission gave its recommendation to the supervisors to conduct the hearing.
Even if the zoning changes are approved, Hovnanian must still go through the regular subdivision and land use procedures for Planning Commission recommendation and also go through a conditional use hearing before getting final approval from supervisors.
There will likely be another hearing in February, according to Township Manager Amanda Serock. Tentatively scheduled is a hearing to reduce the speed limit on Brandywine Drive from 35 to 25 mph.
As previously reported, supervisors may also consider lowering the speed limit to 25 mph on all township-dedicated roads.
Serock said after the workshop that the speed limit and zoning change hearings could be scheduled back-to-back on the same date.
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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