The community should let the leadership know what they want. The supervisors, he said, should look at all alternatives, including rezoning the tract or even buying the commercial property to preserve it as open space. Either option, according to township officials, would be made at great cost to the taxpayers. Most of the properties are currently zoned residential, except for the Fleming family's Shadybrook Farm off Township Line Road. It is zoned office research.
State law requires municipalities to provide for all land uses.
The Matrix property is the only undeveloped tract zoned C-3 in the township, which allows office and retail uses at the same site. State Rep. Dave Steil, R-31, helped map out Lower Makefield's current zoning while serving as a member of the township's planning commission. There are other areas of the township that can be rezoned for that use. To do that is just being silly and kidding yourself. According to his portfolio, most of his work has been done in New Jersey.