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Kidder approves curative amendment to send to Carbon County Planners by Seth Isenberg
FABULOUS FIREWORKS: Penn Forest Township Park was a busy place on July 6, with bounce houses for kids, great food from the Boy Scouts and a food truck, and music by Friends of Rodger, capped off by a colorful fireworks display. Turn to page 7 for a few more photos. JPK: Ruth Isenberg
Kidder Township supervisors approved the draft curative amendments to the township zoning ordinance at their monthly meeting June 25. The 14-page document was approved to be sent to supervisors earlier that afternoon by the township planning commission. It will be sent to the Carbon County Planning Commission for their review and comments. The draft provides definitions and regulations for warehouses, distribution centers and truck terminals. Lot minimum sizes and area requirements, protections for natural resources, riparian forest buffers and their management, parking, and more are covered. An example of this is that for buildings 100,000 to 249,999 square feet in size, “a minimum of 75-foot buffer shall be provided the entire length of any street
frontage…” Another example is that with a truck terminal, one truck parking space will be required for every two tractor-trailer loading docks. A table sets forth minimum lot areas for non-residential uses, setbacks, maximum heights and more. During public comments, Kidder’s Planning Commission was commended by citizen Linda Christman on their work on the curative amendments. A public meeting on the draft of the curative amendment will be advertised for Monday, July 29 at 5 p.m. A new set of rules will be in place for public comment periods to help keep order. The resolution, passed unanimously, adds a signin sheet, and among a dozen other rules adds that comments may be limited to Kidder residents and taxpayers, that comments must be made in a respectful See KIDDER, page 2