Continuing Care Retirement Community (CCRC) Proposal Resurfaces

East Vincent Township has allowed Paul Bucco to present a proposal to the planning commission scheduled for June 17th at 7:00 pm. As before, we believe that most of the residents of this township are against a CCRC on West Bridge Street along with all the possibilities of future commercialization of that street which could occur should this type of proposal be allowed. This most recent proposal is actually larger in size than the previous one.

Please see recent Mercury Newspaper Article concerning this issue:

http://www.pottsmerc.com/WebApp/appmanager/JRC/Daily;jsessionid=PgYtL7vBL0xJBW12Lz8Kfy218cDW23DjK24fTWzkKwZ51rgbv1TL!819070101?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=pg_article&r21.pgpath=%2FPTM%2FHome&r21.content=%2FPTM%2FHome%2FTopStoryList_Story_2103401

We are asking for your help by attending the next Board of Supervisors Meeting on June 4th at 7:30 pm to raise your concerns about this proposal and how it will affect our rural residential community. The proposal will be presented at the next Planning Commission Meeting on June 17th at 7 pm. Your attendance at this meeting is very important. We are also hoping that you may want to help join our efforts by becoming part of our group of citizens against such development in our area by contacting us directly via email. Team members will discuss strategy, become more educated about the ramifications of a CCRC in our community, options for the land, etc. Please consider becoming more involved in our community. If interested, please contact us via email at evagainstccrc@comcast.net

Many of us, when we bought our homes on or near West Bridge Street or elsewhere in East Vincent Township, could not have envisioned such large scale development near us. I’m sure that we all expected residential homes…not CCRC’s, Malls, or commercialization. Nor did we expect the traffic from the staffing requirement of a CCRC and it’s residents. Local streets will probably be impacted as well by the traffic in order for workers to find short cuts to the location. So, we are sure that Stony Run, Bethel Church, Reitnoir, and others will see increased traffic.