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The Radnor Township Planning Commission moved through part 2 of its lengthy September agenda Tuesday night, giving green lights to 3 proposals, which have been prior to commission before.Rite Aid of Pennsylvania got preliminary approval to “consolidate two lots and construct a pharmacy having a drive-thru at 237 E. Lancaster Ave.” in Wayne. Rite Aid’s revised plan brought by it adjustments and improvements in dumpster location, delivery truck turning radii, lighting, the location of trees, the thickness of sidewalk concrete where driveways cross, improved traffic signals, streetlight placement and storm water management.
Without having public comment, the preliminary plan was approved, 6-1.
Cas Holloway’s 40 Louella Court project inched closer to reality with revisions that add sidewalks on the perimeter of a large part of the Louella mansion property, a 21-foot long landscape-retaining wall across the southeast percentage of the loop road and adjustments inside proportions of parking stalls that now “pull back the [underground garage] building four feet” from your eastern end in the property.
Angelo Capuzzi of Chester Valley Engineers walked the commission members through cross-section drawings and landscaping effectively covering slope ratios, the pervious-impervious zoning conundrum of a parking-garage having a 12-inch-deep lawn planted over it and resultant concerns about storm water runoff, concerns heightened through the recent flooding in Wayne.
Holloway said he plans extensive storm water infiltration measures once your there. Currently you can find none for the property.
Capuzzi said that “the 12 inches of [enhanced] soil [on top of the garage roof] holds two-and-a-half inches of runoff [and that] the [runoff would go] into a pipe collection system to release a duration of time.”
commission underground members realized there's nothing in today's zoning or township ordinances to address green roofs or unique constructions this way one.
“We must put an email inside the minutes regarding zoning and this technology,” vice-chair Julia Hurle said.
Public comment was muted in contrast to the outcry that were heard at earlier meetings. Louella Circle resident Susan Byrne said, “Louella Court neighbors are certainly not anti-development,” and referred to as lengthy and contentious process “a waste of our time and township resources,” but tempered by using, “We hope the program continues to improve.”
Other resident comments usually sought additional details of the program or looked ahead to questions of controlling construction noise, dirt, air quality and traffic.
Frequent critic Phil Nolan mused that, “The system works.”
The commission recommended here is the plan to the zoning board for preliminary review
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