Newsletter Gives Information On Billboard Issue

Fourth Ward Commissioner Dan Siegel sent an e-newsletter out to let residents know of the following information regarding the billboard issue.

"The next Zoning Board hearing on the challenge to the township's ordinance prohibiting billboards is scheduled for Thursday, April 7, 2011 at 7 p.m. at the Quatrani Building adjacent to the Township Building at 2325 Darby Rd., Havertown.

"As you know, the Bartkowski Investment Group (otherwise known as "BIG") has proposed erecting mammoth billboards at properties along West  Chester Pike and Lancaster Avenue.

"Because these billboards are not permitted under the Township Zoning Code, BIG has filed a challenge to the constitutionality of the township ordinance, which will be decided by the Zoning Hearing Board, a separate body from the Board of Commissioners. The Board of Commissioners has unanimously agreed to retain our Township Solicitor to attend the ZHB hearings and to vigorously oppose BIG's efforts," according to the newsletter.