First Quality Seeks Appeal on Variance Request
LOCK HAVEN – First Quality has gone into Clinton County Court in a continuing effort to locate a new warehouse near its McElhattan complex.
The county’s largest employer was in court Tuesday, the first step in the process seeking to overturn a Wayne Township Zoning Hearing Board denial of a variance request to build a 275,000 square-foot warehouse on a 14.3 acre site.
The three-member township zoning hearing board earlier this year turned down a First Quality request seeking a variance for the height of the building and a special exception to allow the new building in a Highway Interchange Zone.
The Tuesday court appearance was a conference before Judge Michael Salisbury and the participants in the case, First Quality, represented by attorney Larry Coploff, and the township zoning hearing board, represented by Frank Miceli. Two nearby property owners, Linda Calhoun and Carl Bathurst, are listed as interveners in the case; they were represented by Robert O’Connor.
It was agreed there would no additional evidence heard in the case and the court scheduled dates for the filing of briefs, Sept. 19 for First Quality and Oct. 3 for the zoning hearing board.
