Appeal delayed as mediation continues
The Murrysville Zoning Hearing Board won't listen to Manor Development Group II's challenge to a zoning decision just yet.
A hearing that had been scheduled for Thursday will be delayed as the two sides continuing mediation.
In December, council rejected the developer's request to rezone 50 acres on Berlin Farm Road near Route 22 from residential to business use. Last month, Manor Development Group II filed an appeal with the Zoning Hearing Board. Council decided to enter into talks with the group to try to reach a settlement in the dispute.
The developers argue that the municipality's comprehensive plan calls for more commercial centers like the one they're proposing along Route 22.
Council last week unanimously agreed to have Thomas Ayoob, III, an attorney who was hired earlier this month, prepare the municipality's defense in the event that mediation is not successful.
Ayoob will be paid $200 an hour.
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Manor Development Group II is challenging a Municipality's right to serve. Doesn't sound as Manor Development Group II is in the offense to this challenge.
Kind of like buying residential land and wanting to put a commercial development on it or something.
Large retail centers are becoming a thing of the past. These developers want to be the last of a series of destructive measures on a community.
Read the headlines. No one wants another Wal-mart style parking lot in there communities and the shops that are attached to them.
Hears the headache, brings crime and unwanted people to a community that can hold its own without it. Dosn't increase the tax base. It absorbs the tax base. Its like having a disease. It doesn't go away. Destructive behavioral problem. Abuse. Want to change laws only for there desired profit. Go back to the North Hills.
The developers argue that the municipality's comprehensive plan calls for more commercial centers like the one they're proposing along Route 22.
Minipulation of words. If the municipality comprehensive plan called for wanting a pig with lipstick on every corner, does every pig owner in America think this is a calling for there salvation. And because of it, the pig owner has a right to put there pig waring lipstick there. If the municipality says NO, then the pig owner with the pig that wares lipstick will have to sent them to court till they say YES. A comprehensive plan is an idea, something to think about. Not a law that says first come first serve. Quality of lipstick has to fit on the right pig.
Manor Development Group bought a piece of Residential Land. Zoned Residential, they can afford to put a major mall on the site, afford large pocketbook attornies, can afford to put the most luxury McMansions in the North Hills, can afford to send the municipality to court, but they just can't learn how to read, they bought Residential Property. Something they have delt with for many years and have controlled to keep Commercial Development away from in the communities they built in the North Hills for many years.
Is there a perseption of guilt that follows these guys. Think not.