SANATOGA PA – Coventry Christian Schools received approval Wednesday night (Sept. 30, 2009) from Lower Pottsgrove (PA) Township‘s Planning Commission to re-grade 10,000-square-feet of land at its 400 N. Pleasant View Rd., Pottstown PA, campus for eventual construction of an expansion to its gymnasium.
Coventry Christian School on North Pleasant View Road.
Building plans for the gym and events center were initially accepted by the township in 2004. They’ve been shelved during the last five years in anticipation of an agreement between the school and township over an easement along the school’s northern property line. It would have given Lower Pottsgrove greater access to the southwest side of Gerald Richards Park, but the township has decided the easement is no longer necessary, Assistant Manager Alyson Elliott said.
The grading permit unanimously granted by commissioners allows the school to create the 9,600-square-foot addition and an adjacent parking lot, and to install a necessary water line. The school is located in an R-2 residential zoning district. Signs erected during the past two weeks indicate SMJ Inc. Construction Services of Douglassville PA has been retained for the construction work.
Also Wednesday, planners approved a grading permit for BCW Associates Ltd. to grade 5.15 acres on former Occidental Chemical Corp. property at 351 and 375 Armand Hammer Blvd., Pottstown PA, to create a parking lot and access driveway there. The lot will serve a BCW warehouse and offer truck access to its northeastern side. The property is located in an HI heavy industrial zoning district.
The planning meeting, which was re-scheduled from Sept. 21 (2009), may have set a record for brevity. It lasted only 15 minutes.
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Isn’t it amazing how this former public school can be expanded and added on to, so that it serves this private school well, yet our own public officials couldn’t see fit to plan an expansion of the school during a past summer and allow the venue to remain a serving public school.
We should look hard at any future sale of public property for bargain basement prices.
Funny how these folks managed to abate all the “environmental issues” discovered in the school with a miniscule budget.
Our school board did us all a disservice and saddled us with a mortgage for the new schools.