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Planning commission approves UGI lot-line adjustment for new regulator station
Summary
East Allen Township Planning Commission unanimously found administratively complete and advanced a UGI lot-line adjustment and regulator-station project after the applicant described capacity needs, easement acquisition and sound mitigation; engineers requested plan clarifications for property lines and existing features.
The East Allen Township Planning Commission voted unanimously Feb. 5 to deem administratively complete a lot-line adjustment that formalizes property ownership for a new UGI Utilities regulator station, allowing the project to proceed to the next review stage.
UGI representative Luke Likton Wner told the commission the regulator station "takes the high-pressure gas and lowers it down to pressure that's in the general distribution system," and said the project responds to "load growth and development" in the area while adding sound attenuation to limit neighborhood disturbance. Wner stated the company will transfer a 23-by-180-foot area now held as a permanent easement into UGI ownership and return equivalent acreage to the adjacent landowner.
Township engineers asked the applicant to revise the plan to show full property meets-and-bounds for both lots, to depict all existing and man-made features within 100 feet (construction already under way must be shown), and to ensure the sound-containment structure complies with the Uniform Construction Code requirement that such structures not cross property lines. The applicant said those comments would be relayed to the design engineer.
Commissioners discussed ownership of the old railroad corridor along which the project sits; the applicant said UGI holds a mix of owned parcels and easements, largely acquired from the railroad in the early 1990s, and noted UGI preserves access for routine leak surveys. Commissioners raised, and the applicant addressed, questions about whether portions of the corridor could become a public trail, with UGI and commissioners citing liability and operational constraints.
A commissioner moved to find the plan administratively complete and proceed to the next stage; the motion was seconded and passed on a roll-call vote recorded as yes by all five commissioners present.
Next steps: the applicant will submit a revised plan addressing engineering comments and resubmit materials for subsequent land-development and building-permit review. The commission did not adopt any zoning text changes or make a final approval of construction-level permits at the meeting.
