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WITHIN LANCASTER COUNTY 24 PAGES— No. 46
Decision on
Hogan Apts.
Due Soon
The Lititz Zoning Hearing
Board’s written decision on
whether or not to grant a
variance for the construction
of apartments along Landis
Valley Road will be for­thcoming
within 45 days,
following a final hearing held
Monday evening, Feb. 2.
The applicant, John A.
Hogan, 963 Skyline Drive,
Lancaster, is the owner and
developer of a 22-unit
apartment building on the
land he purchased in 1957
when it was still zoned for
apartments.
In 1972, the R-l land was
re-zoned, along with all
borough R-l districts, under
an amendatory change to
eliminate additional multi­family
dwellings.
Since the first apartment
building had been con­structed
before rezoning,
Hogan applied to the board
for an expansion of the
already non-conforming use
of the land.
A question arose as to
whether or not the ap­plication
w a r valid for ex­pansion
of a non-conforming
use because the land is cut in
half by a piece of land Hogan
sold to the borough for a
water tower. Louis J.
Farina, Hogan’s attorney,
explained that the land
adjoins at a comer and can
therefore be considered one
parcel.
Zoners insisted on seeing
more detailed sketches of the Sroposed building design at
ist month’s zoning hearings
board meeting. Although
their attorney objected on
the grounds that under the ‘
ordinance, the applicants
were not obligated to submit
a detailed sketch, and that
zoners’ decision should be
based on zoning policy, not
on a building design, Hogan
did present a more detailed
sketch during Monday
evening’s hearing.
During an hour of
discussion, zoners continued
to question Hogan about his
plans for the building’s
design and number of
apartment units. They asked
about proposed parking
facilities for tenants of the
building.
Since the ordinance
stipulates that parking
facilities must be “located a
minimum of 15 feet from the
right-of-way line and-or
property lines,” a question
arose as to whether the
driveway was included in
that stipulation. Further
study of the ordinance
revealed that the driveway is
not included b s part of the
.parking area.
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January's weather may have been bone-chilling,
icy, and downright miserable, but it provided lots of
scenes like this for the appreciative eye of anyone
who was able to stand still long enough in the cold
to enjoy the sight. It's been said before but bears
repeating, we just may wish for a bit of this chill
during the sweltering days of August. The scene is
Zum Anker Alley between the Sutter Hotel and the
shops. The Record-Express can be seen in the
background.
Storm Makes Road
Hazards in Area The Lititz a rea fared
better than some others in
the county during the sur­prise
snow and wind storm
that whipped across the state
in the early hours of Monday
morning.
White other acres in the
county were left with as
much as five Inches of snow,
no electric power, and roads
drifted shut, the Lititz area’s
main problems centered
around hazardous driving
conditions as roads crusted
with about one and a half
inches of frozen snow.
The storm came on the
heels of three and three-quarters
inches of rain that
fell here last week from
Sunday to Wednesday.
Another inch of rain feel over
the weekend, turning to snow
here about 2 a.m. Monday.
According to the borough
office, the first cinder truck
was called out at 3 a.m.
Temperatures started
dropping Sunday afternoon
and between 3 a.m. and 7
a.m. Monday, had plunged
from 30 to eight degrees.
They continued to drop
throughout the day, and
winds that ranged from 45 to
50 miles an hour created a
wind-chill factor of roughly
45 degrees. That meant that
anyone outside would be as
cold as if they had been in a
temperature of 45 below zero
and the winds calm.
Route 501 was relatively
clear by Monday night, but
other streets and roads
around Lititz remained snow
and ice covered. Bright
sunshine and higher tem­peratures
began melting the
crust Tuesday afternoon.
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Over 425 Attend
Lititz Bicen Opens
With Prayer Breakfast
By Peggy Frailey
The greatest meaning of
the Bicentennial, for Lititz
and the rest of the nation, is
not in looking back, but in
realigning the future,
projecting our riches and
gifts for the next period, Dr.
M y ro n A u g s b e r g e r ,
president of Eastern Men-nonite
College, told ap­proximately
425 persons
gathered for the Mayor’s
Bicentennial Prayer Break­fast
last Saturday morning.
“In one sense things are so
stormy we ask if there will
be another 200 years,” Dr.
Augsberger stated. “Yet we
must live as though there
were.”
People in this country can
no longer be provincial -
“We must live as a total
world scene,” he said.
Dr. Augsberger, who has
traveled throughout this
country and abroad, was
keynote speaker a t the
area’s first official Bicen­tennial
event of the new
year. The breakfast,
followed by the prayer
service, was held at the
Lititz Church of the
Brethren.
“We think with respect of
great movements in history
when people were being true
to their God,” Dr.
Augsberger said. In looking
back, we often overlook
some things like the tragedy
of what we did to the
American Indian, the slave
trade in America, the fact
that Thomas Jefferson
owned slaves, he said.
“But people were people
then, too • we don’t have to
overlook these things,” he
continued. “ The amazing
thing was what God was
doing then in the midst of
them. There was a great
awakening in America
then. ”
M i s s io n a r i e s w e r e
reaching the people,
carrying the gospel into the
frontier, the churches were
filled, he said. “ I t’s
Neighbors, Lawyers, and Zoners
Aigue Fate by Bonnie Szymanski
Six neighbors testified
under oath Monday evening,
during a hearing before the
Lititz Zoning Hearing Board,
that they did not object to the
operation of a barber shop at
301 S. Cedar St., in their
residential neighborhood.
The shop, owned and
operated out of his home by
Monroe C. Wonder, Jr., has
been situated at the corner of
South Cedar and East
Marion streets for seven
months, following approval
by zoners on Dec. 27, 1974,
for a special exception to
open the shop in the R-2 (low
and medium density
residential) district.
Shortly after that decision,
appeals were filed by John
Worth, 231 S. Cedar St., and
Jack Keehn, i ll E. Marion
St., based on alleged
violations of both the Penn­sylvania
Municipalities
Code, which states that
hearing board minutes must
be recorded by a
stenographer, and on the
Sunshine Law, which
stipulates that all decisions
of governing bodies must be
made in public.
The appeals stated 11
alleged violations presenting
cause for the decision to be
rendered invalid. Included in
those alleged violations was
the fact that a stenographic
record of the hearing had not
been kept (only tape
recordings were used) and
that the decision for ap­proval
admittedly had been
made at a private meeting of
the board, a violation of the
Sunshine Law.
The appellants also
complained that the petition
presented with 16 residents’
signatures expressing ob­jection
to the barber shop
had been disregarded as
“not completely factual” by
the board without giving any
reasons.
The appeal, argued during
the week of Dec. 1, 1975, was
remanded by the Lancaster
County Court back to the
Lititz Zoning Hearing Board
for a re-hearing.
New Application
Application was made by
Wonder at the new hearing
for a special exception to
establish his barber shop as
either a professional office
or customary home oc­cupation.
Both Keehn and Worth
were represented by
counsel, as their objections
took separate forms. Worth
is on record as objecting to
the sign in front of the barber
shop. He told the board that
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Within the Monroe C. Wonder, Jr. home, 301
South Cedar St., is the barber shop that has been
the subject of a year-long zoning controversy. One
neighbor appealed last year’s Lititz zoning ap­proval
for the shop, stating that the sign (shown on
Litlt* Record Express Photo
dark pole in front) was detrimental to the neigh­borhood.
Another neighbor has complained in an
appeal that shop patrons add to the traffic hazard
by clogging the corner of South Cedar and East
Marion streets.
the sign disrupts the
“residential character” of
the neighborhood.
Said Worth, “If everyone’s
going to get an exception,
there’s not much reason to
have zoning.”
The oldest resident in the
neighborhood, Worth has
lived at the same address for
36 years. He told the board
that he had sent to
Harrisburg four months ago
for a copy of the rules and
regulations governing the
practice of barbering in
Pennsylvania.
The copy he received was
entered as evidence in the
case because, according to
Harry Garman, lawyer for
Worth, there is nothing in the
rules and regulations that
defines barbering as a
profession; consequently,
according to Garman, ap­plication
for a special ex­ception
cannot be pursued
under the professional office
catagory.
Wonder told the board he
was obligated under state
barbering regulations to
display a sign in front of his
shop, stating that a barber
was within the building.
Garman noted that, ac­cording
to the zoning
r e g u la tio n g o v e rn in g
customary incidental home
occupation, “no displays or
change in facade shall in­dicate
from the exterior that
the building is being utilized
. . . for any purpose other
than a dwelling.”
Thomas Goodman, a t­torney
for Wonder objected
to the interchanging of the
terms, “DISPLAY“ AND
“sign” and said they didn’t
necessarily mean the same
thing.
Nevertheless, Garman
told the board he believed
Wonder had no right to have
a sign in front of his house
under the provisions of the
ordinance.
Mention was made that
other shops in the neigh­borhood,
including a beauty
shop, an antique shop, and a
sign painting shop, displayed
signs. It was established that
all of these shops were in
operation before zoning.
Traffic Problem
Keehn’s complaint cen­tered
on the traffic and
parking problem allegedly
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caused by Wonder’s
weekend business.
Closed on Mondays, the
shop is open from 12 noon to 8
p.m. by appointment only on
Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday. On Friday and
Saturday, according to
Wonder, he has an open
shop, and patrons come in
any time it is convenient for
them.
Keehn’s complaint was
that during the busy open
shop hours, patron’s cars are
often parked along both sides
of East Marion Street
narrowing the street to one
lane of traffic.
He said that even though
Wonder provides three
parking spaces for his
customers at the rear of his
property, when more than
two or three patrons are in
the shop, parking begins to
be a problem and East
Marion Street becomes
clogged with cars parked
along both sides.
“ I ’d say every other
Saturday, I come home and
just about get knocked off by
someone leaving (the
shop),” Keehn told the
board. “I have no objection
to the barber shop per se;”
he explained, “I just object
to the conditions it’s
creating.”
S. R. Zimmerman,
Keehn’s attorney, asked
Wonder if he might consider
changing his remaining two
open shop days to ap­p
o in tm e n t-o n ly d a y s ,
thereby alleviating the
sporadic rush of patrons that
causes the alleged traffic
problem.
Wonder answered that he
might be able to initiate such
an all-appointment business
sometime in the future, but
that now it wouldn’t be
practical financially because
it might drive away his
customers who work
irregular hours and depend
on his open shop time for hair
cuts.
Zimmerman asked if he
might be able to initiate the
all-appointment practice
within three to six months.
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Notice The monthly meeting
of the Lititz Retailer’s
Association has been
scheduled for the second
Wednesday of this
month. The February
meeting will be held
next Wednesday, Feb.
11 at 7:30 P.M. at the
General Sutter Inn.
All area businessmen
are welcome and invited
to attend this special
meeting.
something you don’t read
about in the public schools,”
he said. “But to understand
American history you must
know about this great
awakening.”
Pointing to these religious
movements, out of which
many of our great univer­sities
sprang, Dr.
Augsberger called for a new
“ grass roots spiritual
resurgence” that will be felt
“all the way to Washington.”
It is not good to want or to
have everything done for us
by the government, he
warned. “A secular
government is good - it
permits churches to function
freely • but a secular church
is a rotten church,” he said.
“Be certain that we’re the
people of God, but don’t
expect the government to do
the work for us,” he went on.
“We’re caught up in a
problem of affluence - the
rest of the world literally
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Participants in the Mayor’s Bicentennial Breakfast, held last
Saturday morning at Lititz Church of the Brethren, fill the pews
of Lititz Church of the Brethren to mark the start of the
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Bicentennial year and pay tribute to this area’s Christian
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