• Chadds Ford Township Board of Supervisors voted to give almost $27,000 to Painters Crossing Condominiums for stream remediation. The money is from the fee in lieu funds received from The Henderson Group after Henderson got township approval to upgrade its Knight’s Bridge Wastewater Treatment Plant in 2018.
• There’s been a change to the township’s fee schedule. Artists renting space at Painters Folly will now pay $150 per month for a three-month use of one of the rooms. That’s a $50 per month increase. The fee will be $200 per month for the third-floor Wyeth Studio. Supervisor Noelle Barbone said the change was to help the township cover the monthly operating fee of the house of roughly $2,100 per month.
• The township will also start charging a $50 HARB application fee, something it has not done before. That fee is to cover administrative costs, Barbone said.
• A piece of open space got a new name during the June 7 meeting. The open space was dedicated to the township when Toll Bros. developed the old Girl Scout Camp, Camp Sunset Hill. The 50-plus acre donation, referred to as Heyburn Open Space, is now Sunset Hill Preserve.
• Chadds Ford Township now has a Tree Donation Policy. The policy, enacted Wednesday, allows residents to donate a tree to be planted in the township honoring the memory of a deceased loved one, Barbone said. The donor would apply to the township and the application would then need to be approved by the Board of Supervisors.
If approved, the township would buy the tree from a list of approved native trees using funds given by the donor. “After one year, should the tree be damaged or die, it’s the responsibility of the original donor to replace the tree,” Barbone said. “Maintenance of the tree will be the responsibility of the township.”
• The next supervisors’ workshop is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, June 20. Also on the agenda for that night, is a hearing for a proposed zoning map change for Hyundai/Genesis car dealership. The Piazza Auto Group wants to set up shop in the two adjacent parcels on Route 202, north of Garnet Ford, but the two parcels are in different zoning districts. Car sales are allowed in one, but not the other.
• Piazza Auto Group is also scheduled to be on the agenda for the June 14 Planning Commission meeting.
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.
