stakeholder needs the consultants standoff met with general residents of the community business within the community developers engineers active in the community real estate professionals financial institutions academic institutions washington jefferson professors presidents peters township school districts administrative staff large landowners within our community as well as other to elected and appointed officials officials in washington county while we were getting geared up in doing focus group  stakeholder meetings the consultants and staff worked on a market analysis which took a look at where we stand in peter's terms of our market area what's happening in our market what demand there are for housing retail office as well as a community snapshot of the poor we took a look at where we stood currently with housing and use demographics these documents will be incorporated into the final  principles establishing goals and creating a vision and we use these guiding principles to create this instead which is a broad statement of how the unity would like to see  i was going to say that the committee is meeting tomorrow night and also thursday night and we're going to be fine tuning this vision and working on goals in objectives and in creating sizes creating incentives for open space allowing a mix of housing within the same developer allowing single family unmodified family to be designed in approved in may part of the same development this is an example of single family homes in multifamily attached around all within the same development and if you learn that to emphasize housing choice and diversity is one of the major goals guiding principles in our in our play and so that was a way to create that diverse housing the only thing is open space in saving or forms and preserving our woodlands the committee is working on development standards that allow for development to occur yet still meet the demands that we the community wants an open space these are examples of the kinds of areas that this type of conservation based design will allow in our new developing residential areas some of the key themes of the conservation fine for residential areas housing diversity housing diversity meaning size price  activity centers and these are examples along the route nineteen couper the committees working on a plan to begin to allow for activity centers to occur often in nineteen out toward the eastern half of the township where  there is a need for some some of that type of development if we can vary town center throughout the focus group stakeholder meetings row scenario workshop there was a clear  call for some sort of place being created here in the mcmurray town center area so our consultants took a shot at creating development patterns within the town center that would increase connectivity allow it allows for a mix of office retail housing all within this area it expands the mcmurry town center area north toward toward b there's opportunity in there to open up the land in maybe rezoning and create a true town center in peter's township which was a theme that residents want to see happen in the the township this would not be able to happen so we look at areas where things things that are a little bit more mixed use can happen without having a lot of negative reaction from traditional residential areas so that's why you look at areas that are already commercial like the town center the water dam area and even on some of the large camera focusing on a single point and you know i've done i would agree with mr lewis to the idea that if my piece wise to televise it from my perspective i don't know that everybody is zero my concern is that you know we've had a number of residents before us because we've been trying to work in the one thousand corridor with businesses and just last meeting we had a lot of pushback and if what you're beginning to talk about is expanding a little bit and changing some of those zones i think people need to be really aware and be looking at the website and be listening to what's going on and if we potentially televise some of these out because it's developed a business gives them an option if somebody wants to come in and find a piece of property that's already to found it just provides a framework for them to to understand could i ask a question about the transportation choice some walkability we've had constant comments about how much traffic is and how difficult it is to get around so when in the context of that particular guiding principle what are the what is the general consensus about the road sort of the improvements and and i understand the walkability by you know most of the main restaurant the sixth paragraph just delete the first sentence it's a duplicate and join the paragraphs still under new business down to the interim traffic controls the correction for a quote of mine and then a correction to a name under third paragraph and i did send these to mr sylvester in advance to correct it to read mrs merrill asked with the limited number of historical buildings in the township wouldn't there be some value in the property to the time as it is a historic school building and then the resonate for battle i think we find his name mr bach and the resident from peter's i believe was not perry b nine and fourteen the word planning a n n i n g i think should be planting they were talking about the planting buffer i don't know if we could change the transcript can we  comments this is the time if there's any member of the audience that would like to speak to a non agenda item you can have up to five minutes or more in the discretion of council to discuss any  opportunity here i talk to ed on staff about what was going on with that i think corporate debt maybe with the school district an excellent learning classroom i'm not quite sure who's go push this but i think you'd probably get some support from the business people in the community also again i think it helped build our identity here township we've done some stop on both the west and east and last year we completed the bridge over more ganz and georgetown roads they opened up last summer and they're seeing a lot more use of trail users there this year we should see a connection to south point from just west of route seventy nine up into the ballpark with for the connection up to the businesses up there on the east end of the township we just opened up nine tenths of a mile section in south park it was a book by volunteers i don't think their actual ribbon cutting is till later in the summer for scheduling reasons but it's open to the public now the library viaduct which goes across route eighty eight is in final design we hope to go out for bid in early fall with construction beginning next year in the township many of you probably know we're building valley bridges number one right now it was supposed to have the deck were just morning but because of the rain it's going to be for tomorrow morning the contractor we don't want to with their work somewhere early to mid june but exam we get the volunteer portions done surfacing some fencing some sign and so forth it will be probably august maybe a little later than that before it's completed and open to the public the bridge that we intend to build following that valley bridge number two we have a request proposals right now in two days the proposals are do we believe there's five or six engineering companies who will be submitting a proposal our intent is to go out for bid in the fall for a design build contract to try to get it done before the nineteen valley preferred intersection project is complete for two reasons one is obviously the traffic right now is messed up because of that project and the nice to get it done and much of  we have about four hundred fifty thousand dollars of the funding secured for that and we have a verbal commitment for eight hundred thousand dollars which we expect to happen but until we have attack in iran i won't say for sure we have more  construction of the valley brook bridge number one came down the ramp coming north and southbound if you mean one thousand and came in that way i believe they actually had to stop having to back the truck back out there so be an issue but i don't know maybe and very briefly the friends of the train on peter's township contributed just shy of two thousand hours volunteer hours in two thousand and twelve doing the stuff we normally do in the volunteer is a little bit hard because of the valid bridge number one project that had a lot of clearing and so forth that were done by volunteers and one thing which after listening to the conversation about stop signs i'm somewhat reluctant to bring up but i will i met with parks and rec at their last meeting and where the project we're doing right now crosses the sanitary terry authorities driveway coming off the bridge we have a stop sign for trail users to prevent obviously vehicle trail user coming through the parking lot cutting in front of it's to prevent them from just flying across in front of the driveway it was certainly a concern of the sanitary authority when i met with their board and on the the west side of the bridge we already a caution five mile an hour sign planned to be on the bridge or at the top of that perhaps a stop sign at the bottom but on the other side is not really our jurisdiction when i presented it to parks and rock they were in favor of doing something and actually i think all but one of them were in favor of this but not enough to to actually endorse the plan they weren't sure about how to go about getting it approved so i'm here to ask how i get would go about getting incision on that or what process i need to go through in order to determine what we can do there are volunteers are willing to do it but we always don't can be very tough and you can locate than plus or minus two feet when using that particular design we noticed those those fences being used on several local trails that goes down trails the wind thinking of  eat it as are you wanted to hear your arm and it would just go down and come back up a tree will fall down on them and not break the wire it'll just push them down we saw the tree off the wire comes back on and bigger in diameter the you might think we don't feel that there is a bee issue not even as much as the posts themselves are the posts are much more dangerous than and i suspect that the sharp edge of the splintering border is probably worse than the discussed this at the last meeting in the recent in fact in front of councils to make sure the council's supportive of the concept because although it does making the application is not a commitment to go ahead with  automated recycling the fact the matter is of the program was funded the d p would have an expectation that when we would in fact accept a grant and go ahead with it so what the green proposes is two things one project is purchas the because the grant has a limitation of two hundred fifty thousand dollars you can't get grant funding for the purchase of all of the cards because we need about seventy eight hundred of them to go ahead with the program so i would postpone judgment as to whether or not to go ahead with the agreement and that would be this fall we're going to be going to war we're going to be going up for bid for our collection for the next five differential because the grant is a sixty five percent grant and we talked about that being two hundred fifty thousand but the overall cost is closer to four well i did we did we talk about where the rest of that where we can say actually what the fees when we looked at this in the report that we provided last time these cards cost about fifty dollars they have a life of about ten years so when you do the calculation back you're talking about cents in and that will not be a significant cost given that the fact of the bins are only fifty bucks and you know if you look at that i mean it's five dollars a year what you're talking about for a bin right that's why i was questioning the increase on the quarterly cost if we in fact go do this we could collect cardboard this way with the cardboard compact hers that is the second part of the green what it's trying to address is a problem we have with regard to commercial recycling of cardboard you know that one of the things that the state act requires is that all businesses recycle their cardboard and we remind businesses of that at least once a year in and what that generates is lots of telephone calls asking how to recycle small parts quantities of carbon because there's no way to do that economically if they so that all the cupboards up in the trash right now well how much is that portion what are we doing with drugs that force we're buying a compact we're buying a compact or ninety percent of which would be paid for by the state of pennsylvania in the remainder would be would be paid for by the township and then people would bring their car or it could come come could compact that if you have large quantities in it you know for instance we get people who move in yes i based upon the experience in township yes you know that it's just what easier for those people to throw that in the dumpster well i think for some people but i but i think what you see with recycling is that if you give people the opportunity to here also i think i don't disagree with that necessarily but you're also thinking about newspaper which right now a lot of people do take to the appetite the collection which i really don't have to do you think that's a problem for the people who have those out there and are looking for that i mean i have no idea what the revenue it's what they get from the revenue through from yes the boches sitting out there  discussion i have one comment under ten total agreement it says that this supersedes prior rate near or on your standing we do have a contract with them that stipulates the cost for the expenses of those are not stated in here so do we believe that the expenses are going to be billed at the previously stipulated rate or do we need to put that in here we we have an agreed upon rate to that in the two writings so that statement does not invalidate and what whether anything will happen i was to be seen but i did give them a number of petitions to use to look at either trying to get the road become a township street or they want to talk amongst themselves about trying to make it a one way street voluntarily and they're they're working on both both aspects the street is very narrow and even if we were to take it over i'm not sure it could be widened to the point where it's it really makes sense  a couple things there first of all in the report with the numbers the numbers on the bond issue should be in millions not thousands but there's a lot of things going on there they did you know pay off their other born early so that they would have to be dealing with that item but you know the difference on the other form was you know two hundred thousand a year now we're looking at after words for the resident meeting and an issue that came up was related to the fact that this is an improvement and it will straighten the bridge out but people are very concerned about speeding on  the fact that right now it slows people down because of the curve coming off of finleyville indicators and they're afraid now once straightened out it's nice and smooth and it's not going to slow people down so there were several comments about that and mr sylvester i've talked about this in the past and we've tried to talk to the state but it's a state road and it's twenty five on the family the outside but it's thirty five on the peter side we don't quite know the reason for th the other issue that came up in mr sylvester can maybe talk more eloquently after you come off the bridge there's another small bridge right across from the cemetery you know how it is that world tight one where you can scrape paint if you're not easy was that the next next one that should be looked at would be center church and i know we're getting old you know we've gotten a lot of calls from residents and senators and johnson warning though that now that the intersection are we going to proceed with that