Cornwall officials are considering options for Alden Way speeders

VaselineJuly 12, 2024

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Cornwall officials are considering options for Alden Way speeders

Douglas Stump
| Correspondent

Cornwall Borough Council members discussed a request from Hometown America, owner of Alden Place, for assistance with speeding enforcement in the private neighborhood.

The main speed problem is on Alden Way, which winds through Alden Place and connects Freeman Drive (Route 419) with Ironmaster Road. A Hometown America representative told council members that speeding vehicles pose a risk to pedestrians walking to the community’s clubhouse and other areas.

Alden Place is a community of 390 homes with private roads that have never been dedicated to the neighborhood, as is the case with most residential developments.

The Cornwall Police Department can patrol private communities such as Gretna Springs and Alden Place and investigate reports of crimes and vehicle accidents, according to council president Bruce Harris. But generally the police do not enforce speeding on private roads. Harris also noted that the police are responsible for 77 miles of public roads in the borough.

While some of the speeding issues have been attributed to drivers who don’t live in the area, Alden Place resident James Kautz said those who live in the community also contribute to the problem. Kautz is part of an ad hoc road safety team formed to study the problem of dangerous drivers in Alden Place.

Alden Place residents received an email asking them to obey traffic laws to keep pedestrians and other drivers safe, Kautz said.

Council members John Karinch and Tony Fitzgibbons recommended placing a sign at the two Alden Way entrances informing non-resident drivers that the state vehicle law violation is enforced in the community. The law allows a driver to be charged for knowingly driving on a private road except in an emergency. Law enforcement would require a police officer to patrol the street and have a reason to pull the driver over, regardless of whether the driver was a resident or non-resident.

Another recommendation was to use speed bumps, but Kautz said his team was told that speed bumps can be a challenge for snow plows. A speed bump has also been suggested, which is a flat, raised area of tarmac that can cause a slight jolt to vehicles speeding over it.

Council member Bruce Conrad suggested that the borough’s highway committee discuss the matter and make a recommendation at the next council meeting.

Subdivision notices

Council members gave conditional approval to developer Cornwall Properties to lease 10 acres near the intersection of Boyd Street and Route 322 to PRL Industries Inc. PRL, a manufacturer of precision machinery housings and parts for the military and commercial sectors, plans to build a new factory on the 10-acre site.

The company currently has existing plants in Cornwall and Lebanon, but plans to move operations from the Lebanon plant to the new plant.

Council members also approved Rexmont Road subdivisions for Cornwall Properties on Monday. The developer has proposed a 131-home development along Rexmont Road near the intersection of Iron Valley Drive, adjacent to Tony’s Mining Company Restaurant.

Construction on the plant is scheduled to begin in the fall of 2024, and the first phase of the subdivisions is expected to begin in 2025, according to officials.

Both projects were recommended for approval by the Cornwall Planning and Zoning Commission on July 1.

Definition of trailer

Cornwall officials will release a new recommended definition of major trailers in the zoning ordinance.

The new wording will require recreational vehicles, travel trailers and boats in a residential forest zoning district to be stored behind the front building line of the principal residence. Also, any enclosed trailer with advertising on the exterior, or enclosed trailer exceeding 14 feet in length, or open trailer exceeding 18 feet in length must also be stored behind the front line of the house building.

No trailer of any kind may be stored less than 50 feet from the street. For a corner property, this rule applies to both streets adjacent to the property.

At the June meeting, council members asked the district’s planning commission to make a new recommendation for what type of trailers could be parked in front of a property in a residential forest zoning district.

Other business

Council members also agreed to make basic improvements to a small piece of land so it could serve as an emergency access road to both the Spring Hill Acres development and Camp Rocky Creek.

Spring Hill Acres has only one entrance off Route 72. Recently, access to Spring Hill Lane was closed when a power line fell across the road, blocking access to Route 72, barring residents from exiting the development until Metropolitan Edison could cut off the current. to the lines and pick them up.

Byler Holdings, has offered to donate, for a limited time, the approximately eight tons of rock needed to put a surface on the lot that will allow emergency vehicles to drive over it.

Paul Weidman, who represents Cornwall Manor, informed the board that a residential property along 125 Burd Coleman Road is available for sale and is in close proximity to a Cornwall Manor retirement community called The Woods at Cornwall Manor.

The Woods is zoned Institutional Residential and the property is zoned Medium Density Residential. Weidman asked the council to agree to commit to changing the property’s zoning to institutional residential so that Cornwall Manor can use it as a place for guests to use.

“Cornwall Manor has always been a good neighbor in the neighborhood,” Harris said. Council members made the commitment during Monday’s meeting.

The Cornwall District Community Fire Company will hold a fundraising pancake breakfast on July 20 from 8:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. at the Alden Place clubhouse. A full breakfast is available for a donation to the fire company.

VaselineJuly 12, 2024

0 4 minutes read

Subdivision notices

Definition of trailer

Other business

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