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Salem Township supervisors enact ordinance adding roads to weight-restriction list
Summary
At a Feb. 24 special meeting, the Salem Township Board of Supervisors unanimously approved Ordinance No. 2-2026 to add additional roadways to the townshipweight-restriction list after residents reported heavy hauling had damaged Quarry Drive.
The Salem Township Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Feb. 24 to enact Ordinance No. 2-2026, amending the townshiprestricted roadways ordinance (No. 1-2024, Exhibit A) to add additional roadways to the weight-restricted list following resident complaints that heavy hauling was damaging Quarry Drive. Supervisors Kerry Jobe, Bob Zundel and Todd Paulich voted 3-0 to adopt the ordinance.
Residents during the special meeting said large earth-moving and triaxle loads were being driven onto Quarry Drive and causing damage. Resident Chad Shifko described recent hauling onto his property; Supervisor Todd Paulich said he visited the site and asked Shifko to stop work because "the road is posted with a 10-ton weight limit and it should have been bonded." The board noted Quarry Drive had been posted but was not listed in the townshiprestricted-roadway Exhibit, which prompted the special meeting.
Supervisors clarified who the ordinance would affect. Kerry Jobe said farmers are exempt and that routine local delivery generally would not trigger the restriction: "It will not be a problem because it is considered local delivery," he said. The board distinguished occasional, local deliveries or farm traffic from sustained commercial hauling, which is the focus of the amendment. When resident Tim Kepple asked how the township would determine when deliveries cross the line from local to commercial (for example, whether two or six loads would count), officials said the language addresses commercial vs. residential patterns but did not cite a numeric threshold.
On enforcement and existing businesses, Jobe said a pre-existing operation called Orrs would be treated differently from new commercial hauling and described limits on what the township could do: the supervisors said they could not simply shut down an established business. Resident Eric Hageder asked whether the township had audited all roads for posting and restrictions; Paulich said they had not completed an audit and that "we will add more down the road."
The meeting record shows two formal motions. First, Supervisor Bob Zundel moved and Supervisor Todd Paulich seconded a motion to discuss enacting an amendment to Ordinance No. 1-2024; that motion passed unanimously. Later, Supervisor Todd Paulich moved and Supervisor Bob Zundel seconded the motion to enact Ordinance No. 2-2026 (as read into the record). The roll call recorded Kerry Jobe, Bob Zundel and Todd Paulich voting in favor; no abstentions or no votes were recorded.
The board also set future meeting dates. A motion to adjourn passed unanimously; the supervisors scheduled a special meeting for March 5, 2026, at 9:00 a.m., and the regular meeting for March 18, 2026, at 7:00 p.m. Kerry Jobe reminded attendees of a Feb. 26, 2026 special meeting to hire a building code official. The meeting adjourned at 7:02 p.m.
Ordinance details: the ordinance was identified in the record as Ordinance No. 2-2026 amending the townshipRestricted Roadways Ordinance No. 1-2024 Exhibit A; the minutes do not specify the ordinanceeffective date or list each roadway added to the exhibit in the minutes.
(Reporting based solely on the Salem Township meeting minutes and statements read aloud at the Feb. 24, 2026 special meeting.)
