{"id":25752,"date":"2015-06-02T15:14:27","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T19:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=25752"},"modified":"2015-06-02T15:14:16","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T19:14:16","slug":"birmingham-residents-seek-township-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=25752","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham residents seek township relief"},"content":{"rendered":"

Board of Supervisors declines to intercede in neighborhood issues<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

By Kris Firey-Poling<\/strong><\/span>, Correspondent, The Times<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"BirminghamBOS61\"<\/a>

Birmingham township Supervisors Scott Boorse, John Conklin and William Kirkpatrick discussed a number of neighborhood issues Monday night.<\/p><\/div>\n

BIRMINGHAM \u2014 The township’s Board of Supervisors agreed not<\/i> to get involved in two neighborhood disputes at Monday night\u2019s Board of Supervisors meeting.<\/p>\n

Bill Barrett and Howard Blue, Spring Meadow residents, told the supervisors that they were against an earlier proposed emergency access road next to their homes.<\/p>\n

At last month\u2019s meeting, a representative from the Spring Meadow Homeowners Association (HOA) proposed a third access to the neighborhood that would connect Sherbrook Drive into Radley Run.\u00a0 Currently, Spring Meadow has two access points onto Route 926. The request was brought about by traffic back-ups on Route 926, and a concern that emergency vehicles could not get into the development.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Barret and Blue currently live on either side of the right of way off of Sherbrook Drive.\u00a0 They currently maintain the grass in this area and acknowledged that residents use the space as a walking path.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis access has not been used as a road since 1981.\u00a0 We consulted a lawyer who said that if no action has been taken in 20 years, the township\u2019s rights have disappeared,\u201d said Barrett.<\/p>\n

Supervisors Chairman John Conklin said that there is no need to create an access road.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is an HOA issue, not a township issue,\u201d said Conklin.<\/p>\n

He recommended that they work with the Spring Meadow HOA since they are the ones pushing the access road.<\/p>\n

In another dispute, Brinton Bridge resident Kathleen Harkins said that her neighbor, Leonhards Landscape Construction, \u201chas been harassing us with ten blue containers.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Harkins, owner Victor Leonhard is using the ten blue containers as a fence that backs up onto her property.\u00a0 She wants him to keep the barrels closer to his business, which encompasses 24 acres of land.\u00a0 In addition, she said that the owner has large disposals of trash. Harkins believed that the owner was not following township rules.<\/p>\n

However, Building Code Officer Richard Jensen said that on his recent visit, Leonhard was within code.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is nothing in our ordinance about blue containers,\u201d said Jensen.<\/p>\n

Conklin acknowledged that Harkin\u2019s issue was bothersome, but that the township cannot deal with neighbor versus neighbor issues.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will have Richard check to see if the barrels are empty.\u00a0 If Leonhard uses them as a fence, we can\u2019t do anything.\u00a0 I believe you have a civil issue,\u201d explained Conklin.<\/p>\n

In other topics, the Board of Supervisors agreed to not<\/i> participate on the Brandywine Valley Scenic Byway Commission.\u00a0 Their decision was based upon three things: the Byway only includes 400 feet of Birmingham Township, an annual township fee, and a lack of interested volunteers.\u00a0 Overall, they did not see how Birmingham residents would benefit from participation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Board of Supervisors declines to intercede in neighborhood issues By Kris Firey-Poling, Correspondent, The Times BIRMINGHAM \u2014 The township’s Board of Supervisors agreed not to get involved in two neighborhood disputes at Monday night\u2019s Board of Supervisors meeting. Bill Barrett and Howard Blue, Spring Meadow residents, told the supervisors that they were against an earlier […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[15,606,7178],"class_list":["post-25752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-featured","tag-birmingham","tag-board-of-supervisors","tag-neighborhoods"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25752","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=25752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25753,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25752\/revisions\/25753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}