4 December 2019
Moon Township Board of Supervisors and its boards · 41 subject tags
The Moon Township Board of Supervisors approved the 2020 municipal budget with no tax increase, adopting Resolution R-30-2019 and fixing the real property tax rate at 2.74 mills. They also adopted a sewage facilities planning module for the McCormick Road pressure sewer extension. The board approved Pay Application No. 4 for the Moon Park playground in the amount of $98,215.30 to Murin & Murin, Inc., and authorized a $1,000 donation for the 2019 Operation Santa Military Family Carnival sponsorship. Supervisors approved a $425,000 state grant from the Commonwealth Financing Authority for the township’s pollutant reduction plan implementation, and approved the Snyder Consolidation Plan subject to the township engineer’s comments. The board approved paying bills from the General Fund, Capital Reserve Fund, Parks & Recreation Fund, Sponsorship Fund, and Liquid Fuels Fund, and ratified earlier bills from the General and Capital Reserve funds. In public hearings, the board granted conditional use approval to The Rooted Story Bed & Breakfast at 183 Shafer Road, including a bufferyard deviation, to allow the business to provide overnight respite services for family caregivers. The hearing on the Victoria Ridge planned residential development, the Gilmary property subdivision, was continued to January 29, 2020, after residents raised concerns about water runoff, traffic on Flaugherty Run Road, notification procedures, and an easement for a sewer line. The board also continued the public hearing for The Park at Luna Ridge mixed-use master plan—proposing 596 apartments with ground-floor commercial space and a 200-unit life-care facility—to the December 18 workshop, with plans to invite township traffic and municipal authority representatives. During public comment, a resident complained about investors renting single-family homes to more than three unrelated people, in violation of the zoning ordinance. The board directed the planning director to send a proactive letter to property owners near Robert Morris University reminding them of occupancy limits, and the police chief agreed to review the noise and parking ordinances for possible inclusion. Another resident reported storm sewer overflow causing water damage on Philomena Drive; the township engineer said a survey is complete and the board will see proposed solutions. A separate exchange involved a resident who said she was not properly identified by a private engineering firm’s surveyors on her property; the township engineer apologized and said the firm is considering a new notification policy.The Moon Township Board of Supervisors approved the 2020 municipal budget with no tax increase, adopting Resolution R-30-2019 and fixing the real property tax rate at 2.74 mills. They also adopted a sewage facilities planning module for the McCormick Road pressure sewer extension. The board approved Pay Application No. 4 for the Moon Park playground in the amount of $98,215.30 to Murin & Murin, Inc., and authorized a $1,000 donation for the 2019 Operation Santa Military Family Carnival sponsorship. Supervisors approved a $425,000 state grant from the Commonwealth Financing Authority for the township’s pollutant reduction plan implementation, and approved the Snyder Consolidation Plan subject to the township engineer’s comments. The board approved paying bills from the General Fund, Capital Reserve Fund, Parks & Recreation Fund, Sponsorship Fund, and Liquid Fuels Fund, and ratified earlier bills from the General and Capital Reserve funds.
In public hearings, the board granted conditional use approval to The Rooted Story Bed & Breakfast at 183 Shafer Road, including a bufferyard deviation, to allow the business to provide overnight respite services for family caregivers. The hearing on the Victoria Ridge planned residential development, the Gilmary property subdivision, was continued to January 29, 2020, after residents raised concerns about water runoff, traffic on Flaugherty Run Road, notification procedures, and an easement for a sewer line. The board also continued the public hearing for The Park at Luna Ridge mixed-use master plan—proposing 596 apartments with ground-floor commercial space and a 200-unit life-care facility—to the December 18 workshop, with plans to invite township traffic and municipal authority representatives.
During public comment, a resident complained about investors renting single-family homes to more than three unrelated people, in violation of the zoning ordinance. The board directed the planning director to send a proactive letter to property owners near Robert Morris University reminding them of occupancy limits, and the police chief agreed to review the noise and parking ordinances for possible inclusion. Another resident reported storm sewer overflow causing water damage on Philomena Drive; the township engineer said a survey is complete and the board will see proposed solutions. A separate exchange involved a resident who said she was not properly identified by a private engineering firm’s surveyors on her property; the township engineer apologized and said the firm is considering a new notification policy.
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