Regarding safety concerns, Mountz said per PennDOT’s request, a median will be constructed down Trexlertown Road to prevent illegal left turns, and a separate, additional right-turn deceleration lane will be built on northbound Trexlertown Road.īoard members approved the driveway waiver, as well as the following waiver from requiring street trees along the Ruppsville, Trexlertown and Cetronia road frontages, with a condition the required number of trees be planted elsewhere on the property.Īlban said staff comments showed much of Cetronia and Trexlertown roads had overhead and underground utilities, as well as an existing pond, which prevented trees from being planted. He said there was nowhere along the property frontage that was 300 feet away from either the Cross Creek intersection, or another intersection with Cetronia Road. He added the developer had changed the design and added a proposed exit-only driveway onto Ruppsville Road for cars only.ĭuring public comments on the waiver, regarding a question on why the distance waiver was requested, Eric Mountz from Traffic Planning and Design said the driveway was approximately 150 feet from the intersection. He explained the design was originally a right-in/right-out design, but said the right-out portion was removed because it was moving traffic directly into an intersection. The third waiver dealt with a requirement that the centerlines of access roads needed to be located 300 feet or further from an intersection.Īlban explained this dealt with the right-in-only proposed driveway along Trexlertown Road, which is currently located closer than 300 feet from the Cross Creek Drive/Ruppsville Road intersection.Īlban said the developer had modified the driveway to be right-in only in response to staff requests.
The second waiver, dealing with the width of the project’s access drive, was withdrawn, and Alban said the developer will instead follow SALDO requirements. Township engineer David Alban presented the waivers beginning with a request to allow the plan to be processed as a preliminary/final, since the Sheetz would not be a phased project. He also said per the township’s code, the applicant must satisfy all local, state and federal requirements before moving to the conditional use stage. “This is really step one in a three-step process,” Martocci said, noting that the project also requires a future conditional use approval in order to move forward with the land development process. Much of the May 6 Upper Macungie supervisors meeting was dedicated to discussing a number of waivers for a new proposed Sheetz.Ĭommunity Development Director Daren Martocci said the applicant had been before the township planning commission, which had made recommendations on 10 waivers for the Sheetz, proposed to be located at 951 Trexlertown Road.