Chapman Township ready to move on ATV ordinance

NORTH BEND, PA – As spring approaches and planning continues on a planned major linkup of ATV trails in western Clinton County, the Chapman Township supervisors are ready to act on a proposal to allow ATV usage on township roads.

Per a recent legal ad in The Record, the township supervisors will be holding a public hearing on a proposed ordinance in the Chapman Township Fire Company meeting hall in North Bend on Tuesday, March 15 at 6 p.m. The regular supervisors meeting will immediately follow at the fire hall. As per the legal ad: “Consideration of the Ordinance will be on the agenda…”

The ordinance would designate portions of 13 roads and an alley to allow them “to be shared by all terrain vehicles and vehicular traffic.”

The proposed permitted township roads, or portions thereof:
Main Street;
Summerson Mountain Road;
Schoolhouse Road;
Skunk Hollow Road;
Reese Road;
Snyder Road;
Astrid Street;
Park Avenue;
Red Row Road;
Young Womans Creek Road;
Summerson Street;
Gum Alley;
Jack Paulhamus Parkway;
Hyner River Road.

The issue had been discussed at supervisor meetings last spring but action was tabled, officials stating there had been considerable truck traffic going through the township on gas line work. A survey had been taken of community residents at the time and a township official said there were more in favor than opposed to the ATV proposal. The township has been considering the ATV ordinance to, as noted in a mailer at the time, to “encourage outdoor recreation, to allow ATV riders access to local businesses, to increase tourism and eventually connect North Bend to the ATV trail system.”