SANATOGA PA – Plans to rebuild and expand Ringing Rocks Elementary School have been in front of the Lower Pottsgrove (PA) Township Planning Commission so often, and by now are so well-known, that the Pottsgrove School District‘s engineering representative on Monday night (May 17, 2010) smiled, shrugged, and asked commission members, “Want me to go though this again?”
Ringing Rocks Elementary School's east facade.
For the most part, they did not.
The commission, during its monthly meeting in the municipal building, quickly, unanimously, and without comment approved a preliminary land development plan for reconstruction of the school, 1401 Kauffman Rd., Pottstown PA. Commissioner Nicholas Hiriak was absent and did not vote.
The plan now moves on to the township Board of Commissioners for its review and potential approval Thursday (May 20).
Kevin McAghon of Landmark Engineering told the planning board the district had received appropriate approvals or recommendations from the state Department of Environmental Protection, the Montgomery County Conservation District, and the Pottstown Water and Sewer Authority regarding portions of the Ringing plans they control or that affect their operations. Minor plan changes, supervised by township engineers, were being made as a result, he said.
The district also has finalized its plans for steep slope changes on the Ringing property, McAghon said, which were the subject of a conditional use hearing by the township board that was left open as a cost-saving convenience. They also will be presented to commissioners Thursday.
The district still must seek a variety of zoning variances to enable construction to proceed by the start of summer. Landmark outlined those in three separate letters mailed between February and April; their contents are being consolidated into a single letter covering all variance needs to be considered by the township Zoning Hearing Board.
Related (to the Lower Pottsgrove Planning Commission meeting of May 17):
Related (to Ringing Rocks Elementary School renovations):
- Board OKs Ringing Rocks’ Preliminary Plans
- School Vestibule Design OK; No Decision On Rocks’ Relocation
- 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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