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Salem approves Gettysburg Land & Cattle subdivision with strict conditions; solicitor stresses land‑development review required for event center
Summary
The board approved subdividing ~160 acres owned by Gettysburg Land & Cattle Co. into an event‑center lot and a residence, but attached detailed plan conditions and a clear note that separate land‑development approval is required before an event center could be built.
Salem Township supervisors unanimously approved the subdivision of parcel 57‑15‑00‑0‑068—about 160 acres owned by Gettysburg Land & Cattle Company—into a proposed commercial lot for an event center and a separate single‑family residential lot, subject to multiple plan corrections and approvals.
The conditions are extensive: amend the owner’s address notation; add a "Statement of Purpose" referencing the event center for the new Lot 1; display pre‑ and post‑acreage; obtain a Township letter to remove the parcel from the Agricultural Security Area; create a recorded sanitary‑sewage easement across an adjacent Schlemmer parcel; show 40‑foot front setbacks from Route 22 and 15‑foot side/rear setbacks; revise certification language and signature blocks; add a statement referencing a roughly 40‑acre solar‑farm lease along Bowman Road; and include an explicit note that "nothing in the Township's approval of this plan constitutes an approval for the development of the site" and that land‑development approval is required before permits for an event center may be issued.
Solicitor Falatovich clarified the board’s action: "this motion is for the subdivision only. A separate application will need to be submitted for the Land Development for the development of the event center." The motion passed unanimously (Zundel, Trumbetta and Jobe voting yes). The minutes record that the Planning Module for Lot 1 has been signed by the SEO but that Township and DEP approvals remain outstanding.
The decision leaves substantive development permissions, stormwater, NPDES, HOP access from Route 22, and sanitary approvals for later review as part of a formal land‑development submittal.
