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Middletown supervisors send Stone farm zoning amendment for review after months of neighborhood pushback
Summary
After weeks of public comment, Middletown supervisors voted to forward a developer’s zoning text amendment and plans for an age‑restricted proposal on the Stone family farm to township and county planning commissions for technical review. Residents raised traffic, sewer and conservation‑easement concerns; the vote starts formal review but does not approve the project.
A majority of the Middletown Township Board of Supervisors voted to send a developer’s zoning text amendment and site plans for the Stone family farm to the township and Bucks County planning commissions for technical review, moving the project into a formal public notice and review process.
The developer presented a revised, age‑restricted plan that would replace an earlier single‑family proposal and, the applicant said, probably reduce traffic by “about half at most” compared with the prior concept. Project counsel described a conservation easement to protect the right side of the property; the Stone family would retain the right to build two homes on two reserved lots while the rest of that parcel would be deed‑restricted and preserved, the developer said.
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