{"id":24138,"date":"2014-12-10T15:44:03","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T20:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=24138"},"modified":"2014-12-10T15:45:04","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T20:45:04","slug":"pennsbury-supports-scenic-byway-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=24138","title":{"rendered":"Pennsbury supports scenic byway project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><em><strong>Supervisors adopt 2015 budget<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>By Kris Firey-Poling,<\/strong> <span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\"><em>Correspondent, The Times<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_996103\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_0914-300x300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-996103\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-996103\" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin: 4px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_0914-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0914\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-996103\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pennsbury Township Manager Kathleen Howley discussing 2015 Budget issues with the members of the Board of Supervisors, Tuesday night.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>PENNSBURY \u2014 The Board of Supervisors adopted a resolution to support the Brandywine Valley Scenic Byway Corridor Management Plan at Tuesday night\u2019s meeting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 2005, sections of Routes 52 and 100 were designated as scenic byways by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.\u00a0 The goal is to preserve our scenic, historic, cultural, and recreational resources.\u00a0 This local initiative will bring townships together to improve visual aspects of these historic roads, \u201csaid Alma Forsyth, a Pennsbury Land Trust representative. \u00a0\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Supervisor Aaron McIntyre added, \u201cThe Pennsylvania Byway connects with the Delaware Scenic Byway near Centreville, spanning 25 miles.\u00a0 The Delaware portion has a bikeway \u2013 and a bikeway up through our area has been planned. \u201c<\/p>\n<p>Other townships scheduled to join include Birmingham, Chadds Ford, East Bradford, Kennett, and Pocopson.\u00a0 According to Forsyth, this project has been included in most townships\u2019 comprehensive plans.\u00a0 Township commitment includes $500 dues.<\/p>\n<p>In her manager\u2019s report, Kathleen Howley announced that the 2015 Budget has been posted since November 5<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>Supervisors Chairman Scotty Scottoline explained that it is a balanced budget with no property tax increase.\u00a0 The Board then adopted the 2015 Budget.<\/p>\n<p>Also, Code Enforcement Officer Rusty Drumheller said that the township\u2019s first snowfall went well, and that there were minimal issues.<\/p>\n<p>Drumheller also reported that, \u201cPennsbury\u2019s building permits were triple in 2014!\u00a0 We had an exceptional year due to the stronger economy and growth at Crosslands, Hawk\u2019s Crest, and Parker Preserves.\u00a0 I do not anticipate this sort of growth to continue in 2015. \u201d<\/p>\n<p>The township\u2019s yearly Organization Meeting is scheduled for Monday, January 5, 2014 at 7:00 p.m., followed by the regular Board of Supervisors Meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supervisors adopt 2015 budget By Kris Firey-Poling, Correspondent, The Times PENNSBURY \u2014 The Board of Supervisors adopted a resolution to support the Brandywine Valley Scenic Byway Corridor Management Plan at Tuesday night\u2019s meeting. \u201cIn 2005, sections of Routes 52 and 100 were designated as scenic byways by the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.\u00a0 The goal is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[6443,606,6518,73],"class_list":["post-24138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-featured","tag-2015-budget","tag-board-of-supervisors","tag-brandywine-valley-scenic-byway","tag-pennsbury-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24139,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24138\/revisions\/24139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}