A packed audience of over 300 members of the community attended a recent zoning board hearing in Chanceford Township, Pennsylvania, expressing opposition to a strip club. The proposed business announced intentions to operate an adult cabaret in a leased 6,300 square...
Month: May 2013
Court declines to block convenience store
Efforts to build a Sheetz convenience store on commercial real estate at the intersection of Pennsylvania state Routes 144 and 45 moved forward after a Superior Court ruling declined to block it construction. The court upheld a prior ruling by the Court of Common...
Residents seek to oust sexually violent predator center
Residents in the small municipality of Hulmeville, where just a little more than a thousand people live, are up in arms over the operation there of a treatment facility for sexually violent offenders. The offenders do not reside there, but pass through the community...
University to use eminent domain for medical school use
Homeowners and other property owners in the Philadelphia suburb of Camden are facing the possibility that Rowan University may soon use eminent domain to acquire their land for purposes associated with the needs of its relatively new Cooper Medical School. For...
Billboard company sues over zoning board’s decision
The East Norriton Zoning Hearing Board told an out--of--state billboard company that, per its billboard ordinance, it could not construct three billboards throughout the state. The company has fired back by entering a lawsuit in Montgomery County Common Pleas Court,...
