Council grants preliminary/final approval to Spectron Building subdivision; council raises maintenance concern about rain gardens

Horsham Township Council approved preliminary and final subdivision and land development for the Spectron Building project on Cedar Hill Road.

Staff confirmed that necessary documentation and signed agreements were in order and that the application was properly before the council. "We received all the documentation ... they are in order and it's properly before Council," a staff presenter said.

Before the vote, a council member raised a maintenance concern about the plan’s rain gardens. "The only thing that I would ... comment on in the application: I would rather the rain gardens not be flat. I feel like this is going to pose an issue with maintenance and upkeep," the council member said, suggesting a more obvious, naturalized swale so that future homeowners are more likely to maintain the features as intended.

A motion to adopt the resolution granting preliminary/final approval to the Spectron Building subdivision and construction manager plan was made and seconded. The transcript records the motion as passing by a vote of four to one.

The council did not spell out conditions that changed the plan in the recorded exchange; the rain-garden maintenance suggestion was recorded as a council comment. The formal resolution number and specific conditions (if any) appear in the council packet and were not fully read into the record in the transcript.

Following the vote, the council moved on to other agenda items.