Planning agency recommends waivers and conditional approval for live‑fire training facility at 1175 Conshohocken Road

The Planning Agency on April 1 recommended that the governing council approve two waiver requests and grant conditional approval for land development at 1175 Conshohocken Road, a proposed live‑fire training facility. The agency approved the recommendation by voice vote and will forward the waiver requests to council for final action.

The applicant’s representative, Kevin Marmish of Pennich, told the agency the team had addressed comments in the landscape review and routed a draft plan to the Township engineer; sewer and traffic engineer reviews and a Montgomery County Planning Commission review returned with no comments. "We were here two months ago, presented the plan for the new live fire training facility at 1175 Conshohocken Road," Marmish said, and reported two landscape-plan revisions, a revised site plan and an updated landscaping cost estimate.

Agency members confirmed two outstanding waiver requests that required action: one to allow connection to an existing 12‑inch pipe where the township minimum is 15 inches, and another to waive the requirement that a registered professional engineer prepare the landscape plan because the project’s landscape architect has reviewed and accepted the plan. Lonnie, a committee member, said the revisions moved the plan into conformance but that the agency still needed to take action on the waivers.

A member moved to recommend approval of the waivers and conditional approval of the land development; another member seconded, and the agency approved the motion by voice vote with no recorded opposition. Agency staff clarified that council, not the planning agency, will take final action on the actual waiver approvals.

Next steps: the Planning Agency’s recommendation and the waiver requests will be forwarded to council for final consideration, and final engineering and landscaping details will be finalized through the remaining review process.