The Langhorne Borough Zoning Hearing Board voted down a proposal by Toll Brothers to build 60 townhomes at the 14.7-acre Woods Services site between Pine Street and Bellevue Avenue. The development proposal has been discussed at zoning hearings for two years. Toll requested the zoners consider the townhomes as structures, not buildings, because the zoning law did not allow for the number of buildings Toll was planning. Toll also requested more than 20 variances to the zoning code for setbacks, driveways and other items. Residents came out in force against the plan, worried about traffic, parking, sewer capacity and quality of life. The borough’s attorney, Barbara Kirk, and attorney Peter Nelson, representing residents, stated that zoning law stipulates that variances can only be made for the least impactful reason and to ease an existing hardship with the property. Toll will decide how to move forward upon receiving the written zoning board reasoning for the denial.
Source: Bucks County Courier Times; 1/31/2024