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Vol. 86 No. 30©
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Wednesday, July 26, 1989
19 Gateway Press Newspapers
SUIUfHANmrSBURGH'S ' LANGEST1CUICULATION
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to clean up its act
; Edgeworth Borough wants MaCson Lumber Co. to make amends for damage done; to borough property during a logging operation in Leet Township.
Acting on a report from Larry Souleret, borough' engineer, council last week agreed to ask Matson Lumber to rectify some minor damage done in Walker Park caused by the^ logging operation’s overstepping Lits -easement. . ■
■ The report also.alerted council to another problem being caused by' the logging operation: silt discharge.
Matson will be asked to, redress- the problem of silt discharge from an access road near -park ‘shelter number four into an adjacent.Little Sewickiey Creek Road storm sew'er. _	^
However^ Borough Manager Doug \Arndt said the loggers : could hot be held responsible.for v ' a minor landslide that has occurred; at the side of one easenient;
.. Arndt J3ep0ris«thatethe;steepness..^ “ of terrain and the last two months of heavy rain are to blame.
., When asked whether there has been any slow-down in the logging, Arndt-replied _that it had' come' to a temporary halt^' .because of the weattier, butMat-^ son was only “waiting until things dry.out;’’
Walker Park . is owned by Edgeworth but is:^mostly situated within'Leet Township.;’ The park lies on the bottom of d hillside properly ■ belonging to David Case of Ross'Township, who is allowing the logging work to bedone.'
Council’s action.was prompted last month by complaints from a niimbef of neighbors and local ehyirpnmentalists, including iheinbers of the Little Sewickiey Creek Watershed Association. Among the complaints were xharges that the easement through the. park was being overstepped and a “gouge** had been created on park land.
' At tlie time council was asked by a ;borough resident’s attorney to join in an injimction against Matson Ltrai))er. However, coUn-; cil declined under further investigations could be made and the borough eng^^^^^	-
Leet Township talked about the matter at this-month’s, meeting. Leroy' Zimmel, chairman of the to^nshipi’s board of commissioners reported that the logging could not be stopped becEluse its had been; approved by .the Alleghenjr, County, anbd. ■ the Department of Environmen- ^ .fal Resdiffce^*.
Case won approval for-a subdivision of his land by the Leet Planning Commission by agreeing to met 10 points, including several environmental issues. .
, George- Villella, commission secretiiry,- warned against hysteria over the loggiiig. ‘*A lot of people ai-e worried about a complete stripping of«the hiUside,. bu^ jfiat% not true.
Planis call fro the 2Mcre property to be divided into lots for homes, while half of the land will be used by Case to build a home for himself.
Dogsgaldref
ALFRESCO DINING is all the rage this summer in the village, where Broad Street Hot Dogs has; set up camp in frpnt of the lormef Plants Galore location. Here, chef Eden Sutter serve up some Of hei* fare to Amy Steup and Emili Riley. The standing-ro|om-only outdoors cafe is owned by local businessmen Marshall Morgan and Richard Lampl.
X (Photo by Doug Kaup)
By Tony Soltis
Sewickiey Council vfaiits to find oiit what shape the busmess district should take. Ri^t now, some merchants $re unhappy about the present C-1 and C-2 zoning in the Beaver Street area.
A special hearing to consider changing; these designations will be held Monday,' Sept. 11, at 7:30 p.m.
' Councilman Hugh McMaster HI reported at last week’s council meeting that several properly owners off Beaver Street requested that council change some of the C-1 area to C-2.	,
A structure in a C4 district must have a
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retail establisHmeht oh the ground floor. In C-2, either an office or a retail store is permissible.
. Sewickiey Planning Commission, on which McMaster serves, recommends' reclassifying C-1 to include all Beaver Street. Currently, the Sewickiey Hotel is the' frontier for the C-1 zone On the'east iend of Beaver. .	•	'.'
‘in exchange, areas of Locust Place, ■ Green and Broad now classified as C-1 would change t6 C-2. A small section of Broad north of'-^Beaver would continue as C-1 .	.	■
“The size of the areas won't change, just
zoning
the configuration,” McMaster explained. “There are about a dozen buildings now classified as C-1 which really aren’t appropriate for retail trade.”
Robert K^asek, owner of Maiii Line Classics, a Beaver Stteet business, warned council to carefully consider what they ■ were doing."He said such changes would seriously affect Sewickiey’s future as far as retail growth is concerned.
McMaster conceded that debate might come from property owners on.the upper end of Beaver Street, who would be placed in the more restrictive C-1 zone.
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