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Developer outlines Dunlop Street easement plan; private maintenance, parking garage financing remain key

Bellefonte Borough Council · December 16, 2025
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Summary

Bellefonte Waterfront Associates proposed vacating portions of Dunlop Street with reversion of halves of the right of way to adjacent owners, a recorded private maintenance agreement and gated parking to control use; developer said parking garage financing is the critical path for broader waterfront development.

Tom Songer, identified himself as a co‑partner in Bellefonte Waterfront Associates, presented the waterfront land‑development concept and a proposed approach for Dunlop Street. Songer said the developer would take ownership of paved portions of the right of way if the borough vacates them, and that ownership would be recorded with covenants and a private street maintenance agreement that would run with title and impose long‑term maintenance responsibility on the developer and property owners.

Songer told council that if the borough vacates…

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