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Vol. 8^ No. 11®
Wednesday, March 18, 1987
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UP, UP AND AWAY. In celebration o.f the 75th anniversary of Girl Scouting, Brownies and Junior Scouts let go a host of balloons in Edgeworth’s Way Park. They also renewed the Girl Scout promise in a promise-circle ceremony that was repeated at the same time by thousands of scout troups all over the United States. Approximately 36 girls from Brownie Troop 255 and Junior
Troop 236 participated here. The balloons carry cards so that finders may get . in touch with the scouts who released them. For an editorial on the scouting experience, written by a former Girl Scout, see page 4 in today’s Herald.
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Sewickley Council puts B&Bs in R-3
By Mike May
By a trick of fate, Sewickley’s newest ordinance is numbefed 1066. History students associate that number with a famous battle that changed the history of England almost a millennium ago.
In Sewickley, that number represents a recent battle—a protracted fight over bed-and-breakfast establishments and if and where they should be allowed in the borough. Ordinance 1066, passed in a close vote last Monday night, puts to rest, it would seem, the controversial B&B issue that has been raging over the past several months.
At a special meeting, Sewickley Council voted to approve moving B&Bs from the R-2 to the R-3 zoning district.
A motion to approve the action—made by Councilman Michael M. Lyons and seconded by Vice President Jean M. George—received the following supporters: President Clinton L. Childs Jr. and councilmen William E. Fowler and Roger E. Wright. Against the proposition were councilmembers Aurelia M. Rich, James K. Maloney and Gary A. Parole. Councilman Alfonso P. Scaler-do was absent.
Voting was consistent as throughout the issue, except for Councilman Fowler, who originally favored B&Bs in R-2.
The issue began last fall when Clark and Diane Race purchased a residence ■at 222 Broad St., which falls within an R-2 zone, where B&Bs are not permitted. Their request to the Sewickley Planning Commission for a change in zoning met with a thumbs down by the planners.
Later, at a council meeting, Councilman Gary Farole proposed amending zoning to allow for B&Bs in R-2 with certain conditions; among them, restrictions on parking, advertising and patrons’ length of stay. Following a heated public hearing in which a majority of residents in attendance were anti B&B for R-2, the zoning change was approved in’ a 4-4 vote by council, broken with a pro-B&B vote from Mayor Marie -G. Guy.
In January, Councilman Michael Lyons proposed moving B&Bs from R-2 as a conditional use in R-3, an area in which boarding houses and other multifamily uses are already permitted. Lyons opined that B&Bs were more
suited to that area. The vote to advertise also was a close one; William Fowler’s switch from the Farole to the Lyons camp prevented another tie.
A public hearing on that change in February showed residents, in attendance, mostly from the R-2 zone, approved of Lyons’ proposal. However, Councilman Alfonso Scalercio chastised the R-2 residents. “How can they say something should be permitted in an area where they don’t five?” He added, “Why weren’t the people in R-3 asked if they want it.”
Councilman Farole reiterated his concern that if B&Bs are viewed as detrimental to the R-2 zone, then they do not belong in R-3 either or anywhere in the borough.
Councilman Maloney chastised fellow councilmembers who had proposed B&Bs be moved to R-3 but did not show up for the hearing. Lyons, Wright,. Fowler and George were absent.
On March 4, the planning commission tabled an application by the Races for' their B&B because the planners were not certain all the conditions had been met.'
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