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Centre County planners present four MOUs for retail, service and residential projects; commissioners move several items to consent agenda
Summary
County planning staff reviewed four memorandums of understanding for site developments — a Benner Pike car wash, a Mark’s Custom Meats retail building, a Stuckey motor vehicle service center, and Harvest Meadows phases 3–4 (about 150 lots). The board approved planning and community development items 1–3 and agreed to add items 4–7 to next week's consent agenda.
Planning staff presented four memorandums of understanding on March 27 that would govern developer reimbursements to township engineering review costs for proposed land-development projects.
Chris, the county planner, described each MOU: a 4,760-square-foot car wash at Benner Pike and Amberly Lane; an 8,920-square-foot retail building for Mark’s Custom Meats along Nittany Valley Drive; a 49,000-square-foot motor vehicle sales and service building (Stuckey project) near the Centre County Correctional Facility with a planned shared street and upgraded traffic signal; and Harvest Meadows phases 3 and 4 near the State College Regional Airport proposing roughly 150 total lots (multifamily and single-family units) with one open-space lot.
Commissioners asked questions about stormwater facilities, well-site buffers, and timing; staff said the developer and the State College Borough Water Authority worked together to reconfigure lots and maintain buffers. The board approved planning and community development items 1–3 by voice vote and moved to add items 4–7 to next week’s consent agenda for further action.
No final land-use approvals were granted at the meeting; the MOUs are three-party contracts among developer, township and county to reimburse township engineering work, not approvals of final subdivision plans.
