17512 Columbia

today’s news … Tuesday, November 27, 2012

today’s news and information gleanings from here and there! 

Quote for today … “They’re not keeping us informed, and that’s frustrating.” – Brenda Klocko, Middletown business owner.

  • First snow of the season
  • Communicating with citizens – “Coffee with the Chief: On Wednesday 11/28/2012 Chief Thomas Hyers will be at Big Apple Bagels on Haines Road to meet with local residents and discuss current topcis and concerns.  Come enjoy a cup of coffee and meet your Chief of Police at the bagel store at 9am.  Chief Hyers looks forward to this opportunity to meet the citizens of Springettsbury Township.” – Municipal Website
  • LEGAL NOTICE, published in the Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era, November 27, 2012 – “LEGAL NOTICE The Zoning Hearing Board of the Borough of Columbia will meet on Wednesday, December 5, 2012, at 7:00 P.M., in the Municipal Building at 308 Locust Street, Columbia, PA, to consider the following application(s) and/or appeal(s): Richard Fisher and AEE Encounters, Inc., d/b/a Club Good Times have filed a challenge to the substantive validity of the Columbia Borough Zoning Ordinance asserting that the Zoning Ordinance provides no sites for Adult Uses, including nude dance and, in the alternative, requests a special exception to substitute a gentlemen’s club with nude dance for an existing nonconforming use of a gentlemen’s club with partially clothed dancers and/or variances from requirements of the Zoning Ordinance relating to a change of a nonconforming use to an adult use, separation of an adult use from a dwelling, side and rear yard setbacks, and minimum lot size. The challenge/application relates to 425 Union Street, Columbia, PA, which is located in the HDR High Density Residential District. If you are a person with a disability wishing to attend this meeting and require an accommodation to participate in the meeting, please contact the Columbia Borough Office at 684-2467 to discuss how the Borough may accommodate your needs. Jeffrey Helm, Zoning Officer”
  • Four Lancaster County museums will share a portion of more than a $1 million in grants awarded this month by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission; one of them, the National Watch & Clock Museum in Columbia, received a grant in the amount of $6,121. – Lancaster Intelligencer Journal/New Era

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