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WITHIN LANCASTER COUNTY 28 Pages-No. 6
Supervisors Say
Flood Plain Overfill
Along 772 Must Go
After a year of waiting for
Sylvan Brandt, owner and
operator of the Rome Mill
and Museum on Route 772, to
comply with Warwick
Township zoning regulations
and federal flood plain
guidelines, Zoning Officer
Marv Feiler has threatened
to take legal action.
During the April 27
meeting of the Warwick
Township Board of Super­visors,
Feiler presented the
board with a series of
photographs and some
documented evidence that
“overfill” of the floodplain
on Brandt’s property along
Lititz Run was continuing
and that a landfill operation
in a quarry across Route 772,
also owned by Brandt, was
still going strong despite the
fact that both operations
were to have ceased more
than a year ago.
Feiler stated that Brandt
signed for a registered letter
sent by the township on
March 31, 1978, which
outlined his violations
against township zoning.
Since that time, added
Feiler, Brandt’s landfill
operation has continued, and
more fill has been added to
the flood plain adjoining the
creek.
Flood Plains
According to Feiler and
the supervisors, under
federal regulations, no
designated flood plain lands
within 200 feet of a stream
may be filled in.
Municipalities desiring to
pur chase flood insurance are
required to sign an
agreement with the federal
government promising to
honor federal flood plain
stipulations, explained
James Witmyer, chairman
of the board of supervisors.
Warwick Township has
signed such an agreement,
he continued, thereby giving
residents the opportunity to
purchase federal flood plain
insurance. Any filling in of
the flood plain, by an in­d
iv id u a l would
automatically jeopardize
this agreement, said Wit­myer.
There is over $700,000
worth of flood insurance
currently out in the town­ship.
Parking Lot
In April 1977, the Warwick
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Problems Discussed At
Of Local Gov’t Officials
Township Zoning Hearing
Board granted Brandt a
variance to build a miller’s
cabin behind the mill on the
condition that he stop all
filling in of land less than 200
feet from the stream by
April 1 of that year.
Recently, Feiler, ac­companied
by Warwick
police officers, visited the
museum site, where, ac­cording
to his own report, he
watched as bulldozers
pushed dirt into the flood
plain area in the process of
leveling for a parking lot.
Measuring the distance be­tween
the edges of the fill-ed-
in area and the stream,
he found that at one point the
flood plain had been violated
by 62 feet, he said.
Brandt protested that he
was only trying to improve
the site by leveling the land.
“My aim was to make it look
nice,” he told the super­visors.
“We appreciate that,”
answered Witmyer; “but the
fact remains that we and you
have to honor the flood
plain,” he added, and asked
Brandt if he’d agree to move
the fill back to within 200 feet
of the stream.
“In other words, the
parking lot comes out?”
Brandt wanted to know, to
which the supervisors and
the zoning officer agreed
that they would like to see a
signed plan delineating the
distances of the lot from the
stream before they decide
whether or not the black-topped
lot must be removed.
Flooding
Questioning the need to
abide by flood guidelines on
his property, Brandt noted
that his mill hadn’t been
flooded in this year’s area
floods. Feiler reminded him
that the local flooding had
occurred before he added the
“overfill” on his property.
By filling in toward the
stream, explained Witmyer,
the flood plain is diverted
toward the adjoining farm,
which could cause more
flooding problems for the
adjacent property owner.
“The very reason we had a
hearing for the miller’s
cabin,” stated Feiler, “was
b e c a u s e it was an
enroachment on the flood
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WV ■ ■ ■ ji i officials from Lititz Boro, and
Warwick and Elizabeth townships at a joint meeting to discuss
common problems Tuesday night in the High School library.
Those attending were (clockwise, starting far left) Superin­tendent
of Schools John Bonfield, Wallace Hofferth (School
Board), Jack Watson (School Board), Wilson Smith (School
Board), David Buckwalter (School Board), Donald Stauffer (Boro
Council), Wendel Hower (Boro Council), Clyde Tshudy (Boro
Council), Jay Ober (Elizabeth Twp. supervisor), Bill York (Boro
Council, James Witmyer (Warwick Twp. supervisor), Richard
Hoffer, (Warwick Twp. supervisor), Dale Diehm (School Board),
Bill Dussinger (School Board), Ruth Husser (School Board) and
Bill Owens (School Board). Not present for picture was Lloyd
Rohrer (Warwick Twp.), who also attended the meeting.
[NOTICE j
fhe monthly meeUig
of the Lititz Retailer’s
Association has bi\ u
scheduled for the second
Wednesday of this
month. The May
meeting will be held
next Wednesday, May
10, at 7:30 P.M. at The
General Sutter Inn. s
All area businessmen
are welcome and invited,
; to attend.
School District Pulling Out Of Cash Shortage
Warwick School District has pulled itself out from under
a projected $223,000 cash shortage, and will end the school
year June 30 with a much smaller anticipated shortage of
$22,000.
The good news came Tuesday night from Superin­tendent
John Bonfield, as he gave an overview of school
district finances at a joint meeting of the School Board
and representatives from Lititz Boro and Warwick and
Elizabeth townships.
“We’ve come a long way in coming out of $223,000
deficit,” School Board President Bill Owens said. Board
members gave most of the credit to Dr. Bonfield. Bonfield
realized the shortage when he took over as sunerintendent
last August and set about immediately on a variety of
Apts., Office Okayed For Home
After lengthy deliberation
and consideration of a
petition submitted by
residents of the 300 block of
East Main Street, the Lititz
Zoning Hearing Board
granted a variance for two
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Saturday's sunshine seemed
made-to-order as local girls and
leaders enjoyed Brownie Field Day at
Furnace Hills Camp. The day's ac­tivities
included nature hikes,
scavenger hunts, sketching, singing,
fire-building, knife care, first aid, and
parachute games, to name just a few
of the events of the day. Here the
young scouts climb to the hill where
the studies will be held. More pic­tures
and story on page 10. (Record
Express photo).
apartments and an office-shop
at 353 E. Main St.
Owner of the empty
building, William Hazlett
and Neil Bushong, Lititz, had
requested the reestablish­ment
and substitution of the
nonconforming use of the
building, which would allow
the store front to be again
utilized commercially. The
building previously had been
used as a pizza shop before
reverting to residential use
in this residential district.
Neighbors had protested
the commercial use of the
building at the first hearing,
held in April, citing parking
problems and noise as their
main reasons for wanting to
keep it strictly residential.
Because of an oversight,
two neighbors of the area
had not been informed via a
letter from the borough that
the April hearing was to be
held; consequently, the
hearing had to be continued
until May 1.
Monday night, Doug
McDowell, 344 E. Main St.,
submitted a petition to the
board with signatures of 12
home owners in the area.
The petition stated that
though residents did not
oppose the apartment
request or the request that
the store front be used as an
office or professional
business, their main concern
was that some kind of retail
business detrimental to the
residential character of the
neighborhood might be put
there.
The board finally ap­proved
the reestablishment
of a nonconforming use for
two apartments and the
store front to be used as a
professional office or
business, a studio or a
customary home occupation,
subject to approval by the
zoning hearing board.
A condition of the approval
was the requirement of six
off-street parking spaces,
which Hazlett said would be
provided by partial or total
demolition of the three-car
garage to the rear of the
property and by cutting
down a black walnut tree in
the back.
Moravian Square
In other business, the
board approved the use of
new wooden signs to replace
existing metal signs on
church property. The dark
green directional signs will
be decorated with the
Moravian star in white or
gold and are being installed
to consolidate the type of
signs used in the area. There
are presently about five
different kinds of directional
signs on the property, said
Byron Horne, who
represented the Moravian
Church petition before the
board.
Zum Anker Signs
The board approved two
signs to be erected on Zum
Anker alley.
The f ir s t p e t it io n ,
Barabara Zink, was granted
approval to erect an
unlighted wooden sign flush
against the wall at 1 Zum
Anker Alley. The store will
be an antique and herb shop.
The second sign petition
was received from Richard
Kroek to erect an unlighted
wooden sign flush against
the wall at 2 Zum Anker
alley. The board granted the
petition.
In This Issue
Business Directory 26
Church News 14
Classified Ads 18,19
Editorial Page 4
Sports Section 6,7 .8,9
Social 12,13
money-saving programs tnat nave gone on throughout the
school year.
The bulk of the deficit was in teachers’ summer salaries
for 1978, which supposedly were provided for, but actually
were not included in the current budget. Other
discrepancies also were uncovered in the budget by Dr.
Bonfield and the school district accountants.
In total, they amounted to about $223,000, much of which
might have had to be borrowed at the end of the school
term, if it hadn’t been made up somehow.
Dr. Bonfield said Tuesday night that cost curbing, some
revenue that had not been anticipated in the budget, and
more state subsidy than had been allowed for had helped
the situation.
He noted that the district must still work with a con­servative
budget, that the district’s debt service is very
high, and that several areas that he would like to see
expanded at Warwick have not been included in the
proposed new budget because the district simply cannot
afford them yet.
By Peggy Frailey
Eighteen members of
Warwick School district,
Lititz Boro Council, and the
boards of supervisors of
Warwick and Elizabeth
tow n sh ip s fu r th e r
strengthened their growing
cooperation Tuesday night
as they met together in the
Warwick High School library
to talk over common
problems and discuss
specific areas of concern.
As a result, the School
Board was reassured that
the three municipalities
have no plans to start
collecting any part of the
wage tax the district now
levies, a possiblity that’s
ever present and could mean
a financial hardship to the
school district.
And officials frqm the
borough and the two
townships learned, in turn,
that the School Board has no
intentions of withdrawing its
financial support from the
Lititz Rec Center, leaving
the school district stuck with
the bill, at least for the next
few years.
School Director Wallace
Hofferth, who had briefed
the gathering on the school
district’s long range plant
said he was “really en­c
o u r a g e d ” by th e
municipalities’ indication
that they would try to “keep
the school district solvent.”
“We’re trying to avoid
surprises,” Hofferth ex*
plained.
Crucial Years
School directors agreed
that the next seven to nine
years would be crucial years
for the district, financially,
until the district’s debt
service is paid off.
Discussing other possible
sources of revenue available
to the schools, those present
voiced general concern
about loading more tax
burdens on property owners
through increased real
estate taxes.
Of the local tax revenue
generated, about 73 percent
of it already comes froirt
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Commonwealth Nat’L Bank
Farmer’s First Bank
First Federal Sav. & Loan
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Hen & Dave’s Bike Shop
Heritage Chevrolet
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Minnich’s Farm Bakery
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