North Union residents concerned about zoning request
Residents living near seven Willow Drive properties slated for a rezoning hearing asked the North Union Township supervisors to attend the meeting and help them plead their case against the change.
The properties, owned by Atlas Crossing Properties, a corporation with a business address in Elizabeth, is currently zoned R-1, low-density residential. The request has been made to change the property to an A-1 zoning, which is for agricultural use.
“This is our neighborhood and we’re not that happy with it,” said township resident Sally Moser. “We’re objecting because they want to put horse stables there. This is not the right place for something like that.”
State Rep. Tim Mahoney, D-South Union Township, is one of the owners of the property and is listed as the owner of a farm contiguous with the Willow Drive parcels. He was reached by phone following to meeting.
“There was 100 acres there that I owned and it was agricultural for years. It was turned into building lots, but we decided not to develop it and we want to turn it back,” Mahoney said. “My son’s going to live there and he wants to grow corn. He has children, so I’m sure he may have horses or ponies.”
Mahoney said there are no plans for a commercial horse stable.
“I’ve had horses and ponies there for years,” Mahoney said.
The hearing on the rezoning will take place at 1:45 p.m. Tuesday in the county commissioners’ conference room in the Fayette County Courthouse.
Thomas Kumor, chairman of the supervisors, said the supervisors had planned to attend the hearing with or without a request from the public.
“It’s not the horses I worry about, it’s all the other uses you can have in A-1 that I worry about. It’s wide open,” Kumor said.
In other matters, the supervisors voted to advertise for bids for items such as patching material, stone and gasoline. It was also noted that police are running speed traps on Oliver Road in an attempt to slow traffic because of the high number of children in the neighborhood.