Timing traffic lights, Wawa, roosters subjects of Bald Eagle Township meeting

By Christopher Miller

BALD EAGLE TOWNSHIP – Bald Eagle Township supervisors met Monday evening for their monthly supervisors meeting.

Mill Hall Fire Chief Tony Walker provided an update on calls throughout the township over the past month. Of the 19 calls responded to, 11 of them were located within Bald Eagle Township.

“These are the usual calls for this time of year including trees down and vehicle accidents,” Walker said. “I want to put a call into PennDOT to come down and go over the timing of traffic lights, there have been way too many near-misses no matter what time of day or year it is,” he expressed. “The fatality there recently is the main reason for my call with them.”

Supervisors heard from township visitors regarding road conditions, sewer rates, a private driveway sign installation request.

Correspondence from PennDOT related to the Wawa project has been passing between the two parties.

“The correspondence is regarding the traffic impact study where PennDOT is giving their feedback on what they want to see from Wawa, and this will go back and forth until the two come to an agreement,” Township Supervisor Steve Tasseli said.

“At our last meeting, our solicitor told us that the attorney for Wawa said that they are absolutely proceeding with the project and that Wawa is addressing the PennDOT issues,” Tasseli said. “They are down to about 25% of what the initial regulations were, with some contingencies along the way.”

“It looks like within the next year or so that the Wawa will be well on its way,” Tasseli said.

Also in the old business portion of the meeting was the Take 5 oil change center slated for Hogan Boulveard in front of Lowe’s.

“It’s been fairly quiet, we saw they removed the ATM and I think this project will be fast and furious when it starts going,” Tasseli said.

Under new business, supervisors heard about Project Horizon at the Avery Dennison location.

“They are proposing a new staging area for expansion, requiring a land development ordinance, but they are not adding anything new, just playing Tetris with their facility since they are limited for space,” the township Secretary/Treasurer said.

Supervisors also heard an update on the rooster complaint in the township.

“The individuals had finally struck out,” Tasseli said. “We sent a letter to them to address it, our attorney sent a letter, and now our last strike is to turn it over to our zoning officer to issue a citation and move forward.”

The complaint lodged against the roosters stemmed from the property owner owning numerous roosters adding noise “throughout the day and night,” the neighbor expressed.