Board considers list of conditional uses

By KRISTA GROMALSKI

SHOHOLA — A rapidly developing section of Route 6 in Shohola Township was the focus of the township supervisors’ meeting on May 10, as the planning commission considered a list of possible businesses that might receive conditional use permits in Chris Barletto’s soon-to-be mini-mall.

In order to “expedite the time it takes for each conditional use to go through,” zoning officer William Gabriel said, Barletto provided a “sketch list of possible businesses” to the commission.

Barletto requested the list format during a previous supervisors meeting to avoid loss of income from rental or leasing fees during the conditional use approval process.

Gabriel said he would take the sketch list “under advisement.”

Chairman George Fluhr said the list would be passed onto the township solicitor. “[We’re] not ready to comment on it tonight.”

Moving on in the meeting, township resident Matt Candito questioned the supervisors about an accumulation of used cars for sale on Route 6 not far from Barletto’s property.

Candito, who said a business “should be pleasing to the eye,” asked if the area had become a used car lot.

Gabriel said the lot houses an electrical components business, but the cars are the owners’ private property. “It’s not a [used car] business,” he said. “You can put a couple of cars for sale on your property.”

“Unless it is obviously defined as a junkyard,” Fluhr said. “There is no law against someone being a slob.”

In other business, the board reiterated the township’s current fire ban.