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Township to Hold Hearing on Proposed Ordinance

Posted on: Friday, 19 May 2006, 12:10 CDT

By Mike Joseph, The Centre Daily Times, State College, Pa.

May 19--COLLEGE TOWNSHIP -- Council decided Thursday to advance a proposal that would ban gas stations within 1,000 feet of waterways even though its planning commission dislikes the regulation.

The proposed ordinance was prompted by a gasoline leak that was discovered two months ago at a Sheetz gas station on East College Avenue at Pike Street next to Spring Creek. The leak is now the object of a cleanup operation.

The township planning commission voted 4-0 with one abstention this week to recommend that council reject the proposal. The majority agreed the scope of ordinance is too narrow, the 1,000-foot buffer too arbitrary a distance. The commission also felt that there may be merit in the argument presented by Sheetz officials that technical protections, in place for all the company's service stations now but not when the College Avenue store was built, may eliminate the need for the distance-based precaution.

Council will conduct a public hearing on the "automobile service station ordinance" ordinance at its next meeting, June 1, and could vote to enact the measure at the same meeting.

For more details, see tomorrow's Centre Daily Times.

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Source: Centre Daily Times (State College, Pa.)

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