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Planning Board approves smaller landscaping building, drops proposed apartments at Manheim Highway site
Summary
The Swansea Planning Board approved a site plan modification that removes planned apartments and reduces the footprint of a landscaping business building; board members also confirmed utilities and drainage installed under the original approval remain unchanged.
The Swansea Planning Board on Tuesday approved a site plan modification for property owned by John Lesser at Manheim Highway that removes a previously approved apartment building and reduces the landscaping-sales building to roughly 30 by 40 feet.
The change replaces the multiunit plan with a single smaller sales building and the same shop footprint behind it, a reduction of about 1,200 square feet from the earlier approval. The board voted in the meeting to treat the proposal as a site plan modification and approved it by voice vote.
Consultant John Newnan of Fieldstone Land Consultants summarized the applicant’s proposal: “Originally a group who was to have apartment building along this end of the building with the landscape business ... they are not going to pursue doing the apartments.”…
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