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MidPen Bank seeks conditional approval for Millersburg maintenance building; stormwater and permits remain outstanding
Summary
Williamsite Civil presented a 3,808 sq ft MidPen Bank facilities building (with drive-through to serve temporarily as a branch and later as a maintenance facility). County staff flagged outstanding items: a sewer-authority letter for DEP planning-module exemption, a stormwater discharge report or waiver, and conservation-district review for erosion control.
Williamsite Civil representatives told the Dauphin County planning commission on March 2 that MidPen Bank plans to consolidate three lots in Millersburg Borough and build a 3,808-square-foot facilities building with a drive-through.
"My name is Chase Mader. As Josh said, I'm with Williamsite Civil here to represent the MidPen Bank project up in Millersburg," said Chase Mader, who described the project as both a subdivision and land-development plan. He said the facilities building would initially serve bank customers via a drive-through and later convert to a maintenance facility for the bank's regional operations.
County planning staff and the borough's engineer have been reviewing the submission. Tanner, the Local Planning Agency (LPA) representative, told the commission the plan is largely complete for this phase but identified three remaining items: confirmation from the sewer authority to satisfy DEP's planning-module requirement or demonstrate exemption; clarification on stormwater controls and whether the borough will accept a direct-discharge report in lieu of the county's full stormwater management submittal; and the conservation-district's review for erosion-and-sediment-control because the project exceeds 5,000 square feet of earth disturbance.
Tanner said the borough had no substantive comments and that a letter from the Millersburg authority confirming existing service should satisfy DEP requirements: "We have evidence of an existing service, so we got a letter from them... We'll be able to provide that to you." He added that the borough engineer is conducting review and that the waiver for a stormwater direct-discharge report remains under discussion.
Doug Gossick of Williamsite Civil asked whether the commission would be open to a future waiver related to Highway Occupancy Permits (HOPs) for pre-existing access points on Union Street, a state road. He said the project does not propose driveway modifications and that requiring new HOPs could delay the project's schedule by 10–14 months. "We're not as part of the bank project proposing to modify those driveways... We're maintaining the same dimensions, same traffic patterns," he said.
Commission staff recommended waiting for the remaining documentation before taking further action and said the submission falls inside the commission's existing review timelines. The commission did not take a final approval on the full project at the meeting and asked staff and the applicant to supply the sewer-authority letter, stormwater discharge materials or waiver request, and conservation-district feedback before the plan proceeds to final action.
Next steps: the applicant will supply the sewer-authority letter and continue coordination with the borough engineer and conservation district; staff will confirm whether a waiver for the stormwater requirement is acceptable and schedule the item for action once outstanding documents are received.
