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Upper Hanover adopts warehouse conditional‑use ordinance, approves regional plan and final warehouse site plan
Summary
Upper Hanover supervisors adopted Ordinance No. 2024‑01 revising warehouse conditional‑use zoning, approved the UPVRPC regional comprehensive plan update (Resolution No. 2024‑22), and granted final plan approval to a warehouse at 2512 Quakertown Road (Resolution No. 2024‑15). All votes were unanimous.
The Upper Hanover Township Board of Supervisors on March 12 adopted a zoning change and approved multiple planning items affecting industrial development and regional guidance.
The board adopted Ordinance No. 2024‑01, a Warehouse Conditional Use Zoning Amendment, by a 5‑0 vote after a public hearing led by Township Solicitor Joseph Bresnan. "Ordinance No. 2024‑01 Warehouse Conditional Use Zoning Amendment was adopted by a 5‑0 vote," the minutes record.
Why it matters: The ordinance changes how warehouse uses are regulated in the township and the board signaled it may consider an additional amendment to remove a reference to "Major Collector Roads" from Section 2. Adopting the ordinance clears zoning hurdles for future industrial projects and alters where conditional warehouse uses are allowed.
The board also held a public hearing on the Upper Perkiomen Valley Regional Planning Commission (UPVRPC) Regional Comprehensive Plan Update (Draft, Oct. 2023). With no public comment, the board approved Resolution No. 2024‑22 adopting the regional plan update by a 5‑0 vote (motion by Tim Woodward, seconded by Stefan Laessig). The minutes note no public comments were received during that hearing.
On a related land‑use action, the board considered a final plan for a new warehouse proposed by MH Il Pennsburg LLC at 2512 Quakertown Road. Amee Farrell, Esquire, representing the applicant, presented final plans and confirmed that truck turning movements at Quakertown Road and Geryville Pike would be improved and that the developer would enter into an agreement with the township and PennDOT to maintain stormwater infrastructure located in the PennDOT right‑of‑way. Resolution No. 2024‑15 granting Final Plan Approval was adopted 5‑0 (motion by Tim Woodward, seconded by Steven Rothenberger).
Other planning items approved or reviewed included a written March 7 request from Gordon H. Baver, Inc. to export excess topsoil from the P&B construction site under SALDO section 425‑505.D; the board approved the topsoil export request 5‑0. The Board reviewed a Johnstone zoning hearing application for an addition at 3369 East Buck Road and "took no position" on that application.
What happens next: The ordinance and resolutions are recorded as adopted and the township indicated it may return to the Warehouse Conditional Use ordinance for a follow‑up amendment addressing Major Collector Roads. The MH Il Pennsburg LLC project will proceed under the final plan approval and the applicant and township will finalize the maintenance agreement covering stormwater infrastructure in PennDOT right‑of‑way.
Source: Upper Hanover Township Board of Supervisors meeting minutes, March 12, 2024.
