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Residents raise traffic and flooding concerns over proposed Center Street apartment project
Summary
A Clarks Summit resident told council neighbors are worried a proposed three-story apartment on Center Street will increase traffic, worsen flooding and change neighborhood character; council and staff said zoning hearings and a traffic study are required before final approval.
Jeanine Port, a Center Street resident, asked Clarks Summit Borough Council for updates on an apartment proposal at the former United Cerebral Palsy day‑care site and said neighbors are worried about traffic and flooding. "I... live on Center Street," Port said, and she urged the borough to make sure the project will not worsen safety or drainage conditions.
Council members and staff said the development must go through the borough's zoning process. A zoning hearing board meeting was scheduled for Aug. 12 to consider two variances tied to the project, and council members said a traffic study was…
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