The Gilbert Architects' rendition of the proposed west wing of Ringing Rocks Elementary School, where four of nine new classrooms would be added.
SANATOGA PA – The Pottsgrove School District‘s hopes of winning Lower Pottsgrove (PA) Township Planning Commission approval for a preliminary land development plan on renovation and expansion at Ringing Rocks Elementary School will be delayed until May, its engineer reported Monday (April 19, 2010). The cause: pesky paperwork.
District representative Kevin McAghon of Landmark Engineering told commissioners, during their regular monthly meeting, that specific resolutions and documents required by the township for plan approval would not be finished until next month. As an alternative, McAghon and district architectural representative Rod Frey of Gilbert Architects provided a brief update of the project’s status.
There was little planners hadn’t heard before. “The basic concept has not changed,” McAghon assured them. “We’re just going through some refinements.” Township engineering representative Chad Camburn of Bursich Associates agreed. “It’s just minor plan clean-up now, as far as we’re concerned,” he said.
The delay before the Planning Commission coincides with others the district has experienced lately regarding Ringing Rocks.
Most recently, the Board of School Directors learned last week (April 13, 2010) the district was unprepared to ask it for a decision on where Ringing Rocks students would be housed during the building’s re-construction. That’s because district officials are still negotiating with the Archdiocese of Philadelphia over a possible short-term lease of St. Pius X High School on North Keim Street as a possible relocation site.
Related (to Ringing Rocks Elementary School renovations):
- Ringing Rocks Plan Approval Held Until May
- Ringing Relocation Decision Deferred Again
- Township Legal Move Saves District Time, Money
- Economic Tales, Exec Sessions, And Long Night At Pottsgrove
- Geothermal Now ‘Locked’ Into Ringing Re-Build
- How Estimated Costs For Ringing Shape Up
- Less Is More In School Project, Planners Learn
- Bids Sought For Ringing Project Asbestos Removal
- Ringing Relocation Decision Possible In Two Weeks
- Restaurant, Ringing Projects Win Conditional Uses
- Ringing Rocks, Restaurant Hearing Topics Tonight
- Pottsgrove Student Enrollment: Up? Yes. Down? Yes Again
- Green Discussion At Ringing Results In Red Faces
- Pottsgrove, Archdiocese Still Discussing Pius Lease
- Ringing Rocks Relocation Discussion Set For Tonight
- In The Ringing Rebuild, Whither Pius?
- Ringing Rocks Relocation Plan: Modulars At MS
- Ringing Rocks Construction Cost Hearing Tonight
- Planners OK Ringing Rocks Land Sketch
- District Sets Dec. 3 Hearing On Rocks Budget
- Pottsgrove Asks State Help To Pay For Ringing Re-Build
- As School Opens, Progress On Ringing Rocks’ Project
- Surprise Enrollment Spurs Demographic Interest
- District Assembles Ringing Rocks Planning Team
- District OKs Architect Negotiations
- Consensus On Ringing Renovations: $16M
- Ringing Rocks Proposals Aired Tuesday
- Ringing Rocks Re-Examined April 14
- Pottsgrove To Trust-But-Verify On Ringing Plans
- Ringing Rocks Plans Take Another Step
- No Shortage Of Ideas At Pottsgrove Meeting
- Weigh In On Pottsgrove Renovations
- Framing The Rocks Discussion
- Response Mixed To Pottsgrove Improvements
- District Invites Public For Study Results
- A Different Rocks, But Only As A Concept
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