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Board approves Molimo LLC 20,000 sq. ft. building addition with waivers, subject to revised justifications
Summary
Springettsbury supervisors approved waivers and conditioned approval for LD 2023‑0003, allowing a 20,000 sq. ft. addition that converts a previously approved outdoor testing area to enclosed space; board required revised traffic‑study justification and bonding/landscape updates.
The Springettsbury Township Board of Supervisors approved conditional land development action for LD 2023‑0003, permitting Molimo LLC (presenter Neil Metzger of Site Design Concepts) to construct a 20,000 square‑foot addition on the site of a previously approved outdoor testing/gravel area and granted several waiver requests subject to conditions.
Neil Metzger (Speaker 21) told the board the primary change from earlier submittals is that an outdoor gravel testing area will now be covered by a building addition "where there used to be a proposed gravel test area." He said the photometric waiver had been removed from the request because a lighting plan was submitted and said parking and stormwater controls are unchanged.
Board members debated a separate waiver from a traffic study. Some supervisors and staff noted that the conversion from open testing area to enclosed building changes the way trip generation is calculated and that justification language copied from earlier submissions must be updated. "We're just simply covering it," an applicant representative (Speaker 7) said in explaining the difference; Neil Metzger (Speaker 21) and staff agreed a revised justification would be provided.
The board voted to grant the listed waivers (preliminary plan, traffic study waiver subject to revised justification, sidewalks, landscaping/buffer yard, street lights, side slopes and specified curb details) and approved the plan subject to standard conditions including revised bonding amounts, parking lot interior landscaping, development standards, a land‑development note restricting tractor trailers on the gravel test area, and a revised traffic‑waiver justification to be included with final plan documents.
The motion passed by voice vote with the planning‑commission recommendations and conditions attached. The board recorded that the photometric waiver would be removed from the waiver list and that the applicant must submit revised language defending the traffic waiver consistent with the new enclosed building condition before final signatures are issued.
