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Vol. 90 No. 2
► Father James Aaron, pastor of St. James CathoIic Church, Sewickley,. left his post on Mon-dey^fte^nipe years.. He reflects on his ex^-perience here and the churchin generai.
► Frank Tiboni talks about the retirement of Quaker Valley teacher and coach Rich Woznicki in his column.
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Serving Aleppo, Bell Acres, Edgeworth, Glenfield, Haysville, Leet, Leetsdale, Osborne, Sewickley, Sewickley Heights, Sewickley Hills
Wednesday, January 13, 1993
Tuning Up for the upcoming observance of Dr. Martin Luther King's birth-dav are James Chavis and Geraldine Collins. For more/ se® page A9.
SWEET 16th: Rep. Susan Laughlin (D-16th) was sworn into second term of office last week In Harrisburg, with a little'help from her grandson, Thomas Laughlin. Through redistricting, Ms. Laughlin now represents all Quaker Valley except Glenfield and Haysville. At right is Rep. H. William DeWeese, speaker of the House in the General Assembly. Later in the week, Ms. Laughlin was in Ambridge to open a new venture for the year. For more on that story, see page A17.
▼ UPDATE
Family gets go-ahead for home
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Staff Writer
The Albert Frank family received the word it’s been waiting for since August—the OK to build house.	t
Sewickley Borough Council unanimously ap proved a steep-slope conditional use for the Franks to rebuild their fire-totaled house On Crescent Avenue. In December, they received a zoning-hearing variance, a prerequisite to the conditional use.
Although the Franks say they are pleased with council’s rulings, their attorney Roberta Willenkin, while gathering research to prove their case, said she came across what might be an unconstitutional ordinance.
“If the Sewickley zoning-hearing board had
refused him a variance, this would have been tantamount to a taking oi; his property by the borough,” Ms. Willenkin said.
The Franks’ property is in R4 residential district, which allows single-family homes on 6,000-square-foot lots to have .45 percent lot coverage,
However, in 1987, the planning commission and council enacted ah ordinance Slat allows only 5 percent coverage in the prohibitive slope areas, which means hills exceeding 25-percent slope.
Since the Franks were requesting a permit to rebuild, they were affected by the prohibitive slope ordinance, permitting the new structure to cover only 5 percent of their 12,000-foot lot, Translated, that is a house of 600-square feet.
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By FRANK TI80NI
Staff writer
Bell Acres Council unanimously approved Monday night a water-system improvement project that will be submitted in the borough’s Pe’nnVEST application.
BCM Engineers will prepare the application before the Jan. & deadline. Bell Acres is seeking the maximum $250,000 grant from the state agency to help offset the proiect’s costs.
The water project is estimated to cost $1,217,000 to service the following roads in Bell Acres: Big Sewickley Creek, Camp Meeting, Fern Hollow, Camp Meeting Extension, Westholm, Hopkins Church, Magura, Barley, Orris Lane, Willow Ridge and Sevin. Not included are Sevin from Camp Meeting to Little Sewickley Creek, Little Sewickley Creek and Young.
The project calls for residents who live on Big Sewickley Creek Road to receive water from Ambridge, while the rest will receive their water from Edgeworth.
BCM project engineer Tom Thompson said the project calls for a total monthly-cost of $50 for residents serviced by Ambridge and a $48 fee for those serviced by Edgeworth.
He said- tap-in fee estimates are $1,855 for Ambridge and $850 for Edgeworth. A $400 fee will be added to each tap-in fee to help offset the project’s costs. That adds up to a total tap-in fee of $2,255 for, Ambridge users and $lj250 for Hdgeworth users,
Thompson emphasized how Big Sewickley Creek Road residents who fall under the low-income family bracket will be exempt from paying the total tap-in fee. That’s thanks to a $100,000 county Department of Development grant received by the borough.
Council chose this plan over sue others prepared by BCM. It was the least expensive of the seven, a savings of approximately $110,000 from the next closest plan,
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