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Tenants of the Kleine House Apartments at the
corner of Front and Water Streets submitted a
petition to borough council Tuesday asking council
to investigate alleged violations of fire and safety
codes. Tenants want fire escapes from the skylight
windows, fire extinguishers and smoke detectors
in each apartment, rope ladders for escape in case
of emergency and repairs done to the roof.
In Warwick Township
County Planners Endorse Higher Density
By Kathleen King
A proposed commercial
zone along Route 501 south of
Lititz borough and an in­crease
in the agricultural
zone were two major areas
of discussion by the Lan­caster
County Planning
Commission when it
reviewed the proposed
changes to Warwick
Township’s zoning ordinance
Monday at the county
planning commission’s
re g u la r semi-monthly
meeting. The county plan­ners
also noted that
proposed increased density
in residential districts was
an appropriate decision
which would help save open
farmland.
The c om m is s io n e rs
reviewed a proposed draft of
the new zoning ordinance,
which has yet to be voted on
by either the Warwick
Township supervisors or
planning commission. Both
local bodies will be holding
public hearings on the
proposed zoning amend­ments
sometime in the near
future, but have yet to come
to a concensus on the
proposals.
Although the proposed
increased density has been
an item of discussion and
disagreement by township
residents and supervisors,
the county planning com­mission
said in its comments
that it was a “generally
appropriate revision which
(will) provide for higher
d e n s ity r e s id e n tia l
development in arease
where public sewer and
water facilities are in place
or ^will eventually be
provided...”
A c co rd in g to Ray
Pickering, associate com­munity
planner for the
Lancaster County Planning
Commission, the proposed
zoning changes in Warwick
Township which increase
density “is a logical way to
go about it.” “Overall, it’s a
good effort by increasing
densities in the residential
areas,” Pickering said,
which in turn leaves the open
and agricultural lands free
from development.
According to County
Planning Commission
director John Ahlfeld, higher
density zoning allows for less
expensive housing which is
needed. Ahlfeld said the
proposed high density areas
in Warwick Township are
“not really very high den­sity.”
“Population growth is
inevitable,” Pickering said.
“It’s going to come. It’s a
matter of determining and
planning for the best way to
house these people.”
In their comments on the
revised map the county
planning commission ex­pressed
concern that the
proposed commercial
district along Lititz Pike in
the southern end of the
township, which would
extend from the existing
commercially zoned land in
the Kissel Hill area to the
southern boundary of the
township, would create
“strip commercial zone.”
“ S tr ip c om m e rc ia l
development would increase
traffic congestion along this
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heavily travelled arterial
highway and promote
energy inefficiency,” the
planners said in their written
comments. They noted that
the area is designated as
appropriate for agricultural
uses in the county’s com­prehensive
plan and for
rural uses in the township’s
comprehensive plan.
“The (county) planning
commission recommends
that, in making its decision
on this map revision, the
township carefully consider
the demand for additional
commercial zoning and
whether other locations in
the township might be more
ap p ro p ria te for such
development,” the com­missioners
said.
The county planning
commission also recom­mended
that the township
consider extending the
existing agricultural district
into the southern portion of
the township.
“Inclusion of this area in
the agricultural district
would represent a positive
step toward preserving this
very productive agricultural
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Council Hears Petition From
Concerned Apartment Tenants
Tenants of an historic
Lititz structure which has
been converted to apart­ments
presented a petition to
borough council Tuesday
night asking council to look
into the tenants’ contentions
that the building is lacking
fire safety equipment and is
in need of repair.
Carol Egolf, a tenant at
Kleine House Apartments,
166 E. Front St., presented
the petition on behalf of the
tenants of the other six
apartments and 18 neigh­bors.
The petition requested the
borough to see to the “proper
installation, by and at the
expense of the landlord
named on each tenant’s
lease” of exit lights over
building exterior doors; rope
ladders providing access to
the outside of the building;
fire escapes from third story
skylight windows; smoke
detectors on each floor of
each building; and fire
extinguishers in each
apartment and one in each
common hallway within the
building.
The petition also requested
that “any and all apartment
water damage caused by
poor maintenance of the
property’s roof be properly
repaired prior to further rent
collection by the landlord...”
and that the roof of the
building be repaired.
Ms. Egolf told council that
she moved into the building
in July and had been told the
roof would be repaired and
that the building would have
more fire extinguishers. She
said she has not signed her
lease because these
promises were not kept. A
fire extinguisher is located
in the hallway that leads to
the apartment entrances.
Council directed borough
manager Sue Scarcia to
write a letter to the property
owner, Norman Norris, who
lives in the Philadelphia
area, expressing the con­cerns
of the tenants. The
property is managed locally
by Coldwell B an k e r
Realvest, 159 Farmington
Lane, Lancaster.
Council president C.
Wendell Hower told Ms.
Egolf that he “didn’t think
he (the owner) has violated
any borough ordinance,”
and unless the building
“reaches a point it is unsafe
and is considered a hazard”
and could be condemned, the
most the council could do is
have a letter written to the
owner.
According to David An­derson,
director of public
works, the borough does not
have its own fire code or
48-year-old Schoeneck
man was injured last
Thursday afternoon when
his motorcycle collided with
fuel truck which had broken
down on Route 772 near
Warwick Road in Warwick
Township.
According to Warwick
Township Police, Donald R.
Torrence, 48, of Schoeneck
Rl, was traveling east on
Route 772 on his 1984
Kawasaki motorcycle when
he rounded a curve and
struck an International fuel
truck which had broken
down and was parked on the
roadway.
Torrence was transported
by the Rothsville ambulance
to Lancaster Osteopathic
Hospital where he was
treated and released.
Police said the driver of
the truck, Robert Gene Zug,
34, of Refton, Pa., was not
injured in the collision.
A tow truck was called to
remove the fuel truck from
the scene of the collision.
The accident is still under
investigation, police said.
A 17-year-old Newport
Road motorist was cited for
not remaining in the proper
lane of traffic Friday night
after she lost control of her
vehicle which flipped onto its
roof and came to rest in the
roadway.
According to police, the
teenager was traveling west
on East Newport Road,
rounded a curve a 35 mph
building inspection code, but
by way of reference uses
codes printed by the
Building Officials Code
Association. The borough
does also not have a building
inspector, Anderson said,
and can do little to enforce
the BOCA Codes.
Hower suggested looking
into the possibility of
requiring all apartments in
the future to have smoke
detectors.
and swerved to avoid an
object crossing the road.
She lost control of her
vehicle, and struck an
embankment, which caused
the car to roll over on to its
roof, blocking the westbound
land, police said.
The driver was not in­jured,
but the vehicle was
damaged and had to be
towed from the scene. The
accident occurred shortly
after 10 p.m., police said.
Police said Gene G.
Murphy, 30, of 314 Chocolate
Ave., Mount Joy, was cited
for driving under the in­fluence
of alcohol Sept. 22
after his car struck a
mailbox and utility pole
1 along Rabbit Hill Road
shortly before midnight.
There were no injuries.
The vehicle had to be towed
from the scene.
Warwick Township police
cited Bea Moua, 31, of 1053
Pershing Road, Reading,
with not yielding half of the
roadway following a two-car
collision on Sept. 20 at 1:45
p.m.
According to police, Moua
was traveling north on
Skyview Lane in the middle
of the road and, upon ob­serving
an oncoming
vehicle, swerved to the right,
lost control of her car and
struck a legally parked
vehicle owned by Victor C.
Stepina, 107 Skyview Lane.
There were no injuries, but
both cars were damaged,
Norris, the owner, con­tacted
Tuesday evening
after the meeting, said he
and his wife had purchased
the building in the fall of 1979
and renovated it in the early
‘80’s “at the request and
pleasure of the Lititz
Historical Society.”
Norris said the building
has seven apartments, each
of them a two story unit with
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pol \e said.
H. Landis Martin, 69, of 449
E. Brubaker Valley Road,
was cited for failure to yield
the right of way following a
collision Sept. 19 at 2:15 p.m.
near the intersection of
Church and Main streets in
Rothsville.
According to police,
Martin pulled from Church
Street onto Main in the path
of a westbound vehicle,
driven by William A. Radell
Jr. of 340 E. Main St. Police
said Radell, who was
traveling about 30 mph,
applied his brakes, swerved
to the right and struck a
utility pole. His car was
slightly damaged, police
said.
Warwick Township police
charged Alvin Lee Stoltzfus,
19, with driving under the
influence, a stop sign
violation and a liquor law
violation after he allegedly
failed to come to a complete
stop at the intersection of
Newport Road and Route 772
shortly before midnight on
Sept. 22.
Police cited Jam es
Staggers, 18, of 1309 Church
St., with underage drinking,
criminal trespass and
disorderly conduct following
an incident at H.S.Dull and
Sons auto parts, 1230 Dridge
Hill Road, on Sept. 18.
Warwick Township police
are investigating an incident
which occurred early
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Motorcyclist Injured
In Route 772 Accident
F i v e F o r e i g n S t u d e n t s E x c h a n g e I m p r e s s i o n s O f L i t i t z
By Karen Belber
Five young students from
Tunisia, Holland, Japan,
Finland and Germany have
something in common -
they’re different. A common
ground has been founded by
their obvious cultural and
ethnic differences.
The five students are in­volved
in international
exchange programs, all
designed to allow students of
various nationalities an
opportunity to get to know
the American way of life,
and to help strengthen and
bridge diplomatic relations.
The U n ited S ta te s
reciprocates, with several
thousand American students
traveling to other countries
each year as part of the
international exchange
programs.
Warwick has accepted
three different programs
into the district this year -
American Field Service,
Educational Foundation for
Foreign Service and the
Youth For Understanding
programs.
AFS student Mohammed
Baoueb is from Monastir, a
middle eastern region of
Tunisia where olive trees
flourish. His Tunisian family
is a large one, with ten
children.
Mohammed, 19, is living
with the Kenneth Boak
family at 701 Pine Hill Raod
in Brunnerville. The Boaks
hosted a Bolivian girl in their
home during the 1976-77
school year.
Mr. Boak said that they
are very pleased with the
AFS program in Warwick.
Mohammed indicated that
life in Lititz is really not too
different from his way of
life, at least in the “routine”
sense. “You get up and go to
school. Then you come home
and you study.
“American schools are
very well organized...In
Tunisia, though, you are able
to go home between classes
and for lunch,” he said,
Mohammed also men­tioned
that the academics
are different, too. Ap­parently,
Tunisian students
have few scholastic elec­tives,
but they are given
more personal freedom
during the course of the
school day.
Mohammed is a well
traveled young man. Before
coming to the states in
August he and his father
visited one of Mohammed’s
s i s te r s in F r a n c e .
Mohammed traveled solo to
Iraq, Greece and Swit­zerland.
“The travels were a gift
from my family,” he said
with gratitude.
Mohammed explained that
his country, which is
situated in Northern Africa
and bordered by Algeria on
the west and Libya on the
east, “is very influenced by
the western world,” because
western technology is
superior, he said.
He was a little disap­pointed
that American
te le v is io n i s n ’t as
educational, though, Mr.
Boak said. But Mohammed
had seen “Dallas” before
coming to America.
Mohammed, who has a
fine command of the French
language, was discouraged
from taking it at Warwick.
Instead he is studying
German and so far not
having any difficulty with it.
His native tongue is Arabic,
and his religion is Islamic.
“There are no problems
for me here because of my
religious background,” he
said.
After finishing his
secondary education,
Mohammed plans to study
art at one of the universities
in Tunisia.
His father is a secondary
school headmaster, which,
Mohammed said, explains
his interest in education.
“ I a lre ad y have a
bibliothèque (library),” he
said spreading his arms to
describe its magnitude.
Central Tunisia, he said, is
very warm and produces
alot of wheat and barley.
“Olive oil also is a main
production,” he added.
The Sahara desert is about
300 kilometers southwest of
his city. Mountains abound
in the northern regions of his
country.
Mohammed, aside from
being a conscientious
student, is an ex-soccer
player, who now plays
IS P
volleyball and participates
in track events. He said that
a foot injury has forced him
to retire from the in­ternationally
popular soccer
sport.
He and the Boaks enjoy
going to high school football
games together, as well as
competing in family ping
pong matches.
“He’s gotten good at ping
pong in the past month,” Mr.
Boak said.
EFFS student, Yvonne
Kruiswijk, 17, of Holland,
said that the Lititz area is
really very similar to her
native Netherlands, located
north of France and west of
Germany.
In her town of Gelderson,
which is twice the size of
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Lititz Retailer’s
Mohammed Baoueb of Tunisia spoke for his
country in Northern Africa when he said, "We're
more interested in the West than in the East in
Tunisia.”
For Jun Sato, who studies a lot of mathematics
in his native Japan, “ Political Behavior and
Geography of the U.S. are very difficult” subjects
for him at Warwick.