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SEWICKLEY’S NEW POST OFFICE would have a Sewickley Plannihg Commission on April 3 by ar-	postal and borough officials.'
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By Joseph F. Smith
The latest design for a new Sewickley Post Office was shown, to members of. the Sewickley Planning Commission at their meeting oh April 3.
According • to plans presented by architect A.E. Prack, - Jr., the new post
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building, with an entrance off Division Street. .
Prack told the planning commission the plans had been "redrawn from those-submitted earlier this year to comply with suggestions .the planning commission =had made and to conform as much as- possible with ! r-^v^eiif%J3;Zoriing.“
As an example, he noted sthat the size of the parking spaces -had been increased to he ten-feet wide and the number of them reduced.- In
CheSthiit and Thorn Streets and be a one-story .brick building -of. Colonial.ap-pcsrsncc,. . ,,	. *■,
It will be set 35 feet back;- __ from Thom Street, although addition, the number of a portico jn front' will extend - customer parking spaces seven feetinto the required	hacfbeen cutin half to allow
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A customer parking lot with eight spaces will be accessible - from Thorn Street. Sixteen parking spaces for, postal workers will be located on the Chestnut Street side of the
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PraCky^pointed out, however,Jihat even with the changes' the planning cpmsi/issioners had suggested; the. plans, .which had to be drawn to meet the .needs of>the United'States _

Postal Service, still were not in full compliance with the borough’s zoning. ,
Besides the portico that extends seyen feet into the front *'rsrd)1 the. sis!8-of th6 building itself is over what is permitted‘to cover the 'ground and the Iot.coverage is high .The structure will-cover luiaper ceni oi uie ioi (the zoning sets a maximum of sixteen per cent) and the total let coverage, including . parking lots snd sidewalks, ■-is 44.4 per cent, with the zonirigallowing amaximum , of 35per cent..
Sewickley borough manager ‘ Martin C.
- McDaniel said the Postal Service would have to apply' to the Sewickley Zoning Hearing	Board	for
variances on the parts of the plan hpt in'. conformance with:the zoning before a building permit could be„ granted.
The architect stressed that everything possiblehad been done to make the utilitarian parts of the building as unobtrusive as possible; with brick screen . walls extending' back from the sides of the* building to conceal the loading docks apd a modified hip roof ^iiiuing' the;heating*and'*aif-conditioning equipment.
'Although no landscaping was shown on the plans, Prack said - the lot would be'iplanted and they- would attempt-' to' screen the vehicle loading: area behind the building from .public view jqn Division Street: He said that while Postal Service regulations call for, a chain-link security fence , to enclose the delivery jeeps and trucks; this could have slats put in it: and that landscaping could be put in front of it.
Prack said the plans still
need final approval from postal officials in Philadelphia but that he ' expected this would be forthcoming.
Pending issuance of a building permit, Prack noted, construction of the new post office could begin . in early summer.
* Planning .commission' chairman-^H. ■ Alan- Speak said he would like some time , to go over the plans carefully, before making a .recommendation to Sewickley Council on them, but several other members of the commission seemed -ready to make an appraisal that night.	-
< “We do want to thank you,.
Mr. Prack, for giving us this fine design,” was one comment from, Sewickley councilwoman andplanning commissioner Mrs, Jean George.
Jack Squires, another, commissioner, said, “This is a much better building than we had bargained for; it will certainly be an extremely attractive addition to Sewickley.”
Following further discussion, the commission ■ set a special meeting for April 9, at 7:30 p:m., in the Sewickley Council Chamber, to make . a recommendation on the latest post office plans.	'
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St. James School at Broad • and Chestnut Streets in Sewickley was-the site of a break-in, early April 1. .
Several windows were broken, doors and cabinets were jimmied open. Sewickley Police learned of the break-in from a janitor at the school who had reported for work at 7 a.m. that morning.
Entry was apparently through a broken window in the cafeteria on the Bank Street side of the building..
Police said doors in the cafeteria’s pantry and on the freezers had been pried open, apparently with a crow bar. A small strong box was taken, but it was not known whether, it contained moneyor not.
The door to the principal’s office was also pried open, and papers were strewn about the room. Six classrooms were entered by breaking Windows in the doors.
Tampering done to meters
Sewickley Police have asked residents to keep a watch out for anyone seen tampering with borough parking meters.
Police reported Monday that 100 meters along Thorn, Locust, Blackburn and Walnut Streets were
without money when borough crews made their normal collections, Locks on two of the meters Ore missing,
Anyone seeing someone tampering with a meter is asked to call Sewickley POlicedt 741-4111.
Heights sets special meeting
Sewickley Heights Borough Planning Com* mission will hold a special meeting at 4 p.m, on Friday, April 11 at the borough building on Country Club. Road,
The commission will consider a sub-division plan submitted by Mrs. Mary Purvis of hef property located on Merriman Road in the borough.