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District to ask zoning board to allow Landis Run Drive upgrades and new maintenance shop; projects bundled to preserve impervious limits
Summary
Manheim Township School District plans a combined zoning submission for Landis Run Drive improvements, two parking lots and a proposed 18,000-square-foot maintenance and food-service building; administrators say bundling the projects is strategic because of impervious-surface rules and the district's limited buildable area.
Manheim Township School District staff said Thursday they will ask the township Zoning Hearing Board on Sept. 2 to accept a combined submission for Landis Run Drive upgrades, two new parking lots and a proposed maintenance and food-service building on campus.
The presentation, led by district administrators and project engineers, described the work as phase two of a multi-phase campus master plan. Phase one (softball, baseball and track work and removal of old fuel pumps) is underway. Phase two will include the roadway upgrade, two parking lots near the top of the campus drive and a new maintenance/food-service building planned in the area where a large dirt pile currently sits.
"The new building will be approximately 18,000 square feet," said project representative Zach (presenter name in transcript). He described five maintenance bays (12 feet wide by 12 feet high each) plus a food-service bay and storage and walk-in freezer space to replace storage lost during construction of the new middle school.
Administrators said they combined the parking and maintenance-shop submissions before the Zoning Hearing Board because impervious-surface rules change once a building is added to a submission; adding the building to the same application alters the impervious calculation and makes the proposal more workable on a constrained site. Officials also described stormwater measures (rain gardens and detention basins) intended to lower stormwater-management costs compared with earlier designs.
Preliminary cost estimates provided to the board put the maintenance building at roughly $5—6$6 million and Landis Run Drive work at about $1.8—6$2.2 million, for a combined preliminary total of $6.8—6$8.2 million; the district said those figures are early estimates and will be updated before bidding.
Administrators said the district has approximately $16 million in its capital reserve account and indicated the intent to use existing cash rather than borrow if the board authorizes moving ahead to submit plans to the Zoning Hearing Board. The district said that approval to submit plans does not authorize construction; staff said the district would return with final bid results in spring 2026 for formal approval before any construction contract is executed.
Ending: District staff said the Sept. 2 Zoning Hearing Board filing is the first step and that updated cost estimates and bid results will be presented to the board before any contract award.
