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Kidder Planning hears concerns of citizens over truck terminals by Seth Isenberg
The Camp Pocono project needed some tweaks. Here, Bill Erdman of Keystone Consulting answers supervisors’ questions regarding the campground at the former Camp Adams. JPK: Seth Isenberg
Per capita tax gone in Penn Forest by Seth Isenberg Penn Forest Township supervisors repealed the annual per capita tax for residents. Supervisors passed Ordinance #2 of 2024 eliminating the yearly $4.90 per person tax. The former Camp Adams property, now under local
ownership, came before the board to get the property re-opened as a tourist cabin camp. There are a variety of issues to work through, and after some navigating, including an agreement to return shale trailer campsites their original states, the 450-acre Camp Pocono can move ahead towards being
open this summer. It will start with 34 renovated cabins — originally built in the 1970s. A letter from long-time township emergency management coordinator (EMC) David Michael III was accepted with regret, and a
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At a workshop session on Tuesday, May 14, Kidder citizens got a chance to air their opinions and show their research on the effects of truck terminals – traffic, noise, air pollution, light pollution… Several citizens spoke, and others submitted their documents for the Planning Commission members to review. Among the comments were issues of a forest buffer from the roadway, and a need to know the tenant of a building ahead of time. Citizen Beth Hurley, a leader of the Love Kidder Township group, referred the members to a model ordinance, and asked that future buildings start with a conditional use, rather than a permitted one. A recommendation was to have solar panels
Citizen Beth Hurley makes a point in speaking to the Planning Commission at the May 14 workshop meeting.
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on the roofs of these big structures. Citizen Linda Mourar wanted the township to See KIDDER, page 2
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