The Accent On Health office on East High Street
SANATOGA PA – In a rare censure of a Lower Pottsgrove (PA) Township business, the Board of Commissioners has given a local chiropractor 45 days to make what were called long-overdue repairs at his office property, or the township will have the work done itself and force the owner to pay for it.
At the suggestion of township Assistant Manager Alyson Elliott, commissioners during their meeting last week (March 7, 2011) unanimously ordered Dr. Glenn Waldt of Accent On Health, 2871 E. High St., Pottstown PA, to fix a storm water drainage problem at the rear of his property by early May. The matter has been a subject of hours of discussion and negotiations since 2005, Elliott said.
She estimated the repair work could cost up to $10,000.
Waldt received township approval several years ago to open his East High Street practice. Alterations to the property at the time, Elliott said, included the apparently improper installation of a storm drain that proved too narrow for the amount of water it carries. Township Codes Enforcement Officer Keith Place has determined the drain could collapse and possibly cause flooding, board members were told.
Although Waldt and a contractor with whom he has consulted have met with Elliott, representatives of the township engineering firm of Bursich Associates, and others over the years, the drain still isn’t fixed. “He’s just been uncooperative,” Solicitor R. Kurtz Holloway said of Waldt.
That prompted Elliot to urge commissioners “to take the next step.”
The board’s legal order demands repairs get under way without further delay. If the chiropractor fails to have his contractor do the work, Lower Pottsgrove plans to hire one on its behalf. Money for the job will be withdrawn from an escrowed security sum the township required the doctor to pay when it approved the office location and renovations.
Normally, escrow money is returned to a property owner once the township is satisfied that all requirements for a development proposal are met. Because of the outstanding drain issue, that never happened with the Accent On Health parcel, Elliott said.
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