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Foxcroft Square Apartments - Greenwood Ave
As proposed in Jan 2020 104 Units on 3.65
Acres
The original story began in 1994 with
Parking variances.
Then an application was presented in
2002 for 2 hi-rise apartment buildings - 78 units
total
An
application by the
Galman Group
for two luxury apartment buildings with a total of 78 units
located on Greenwood Avenue near Washington Lane, along the access road for the
shopping center with the Acme and Foxcroft Pavillion was put
before the the Board in 2002 . Each building is 5 stories
high, and would have an underground parking garage. Unlike the
previous proposals for this particular site, this application,
everyone was told, was conforming and
did not require any Zoning Hearing Board relief. The plan was
presented for review at the Township Planning Commission
August 27, 2002 . It was reviewed and approved by the Code
Enforcement and Land Development Committee at the September 3,
2002 meeting. The full Board of Commissioners also approved
this plan at the September 12, 2002 Board of Commissioners
meeting, subject to 4 conditions.
Jenkintown Borough and a group of Jenkintown residents,
however
appealed the approval of this application to the Court of Common
Pleas.
A 2003 Lawsuit filed …
claiming, among other things, zoning officer Mark Penecale
had erred when he said it conformed and did not need to go to
the Zoning Hearing Board .
.http://www.pacourts.us/assets/opinions/Commonwealth/out/1844cd03_8-6-04.pdf
| The Jenkintown
Borough appeals was denied by the Court of Common
Pleas”
http://www.pacourts.us/assets/opinions/Commonwealth/out/1844cd03_8-6-04.pdf
......
as was the appeal by the residents
4 https://caselaw.findlaw.com/pa-commonwealth-court/1306546.html
after which
an appeal was applied for by the Borough in
Commonwealth Court.
The Court denied the appeals and and ordered
the issue back to the Zoning Hearing Board to issue a “Permitted
Use Zoning
or
Certificate
Then, Jenkintown Borough
& its residents appealed the
issuance of the Use Certificate. That appeal hearing was held
March 17, 2005 before the Abington Township Zoning Hearing Board
....... ( and/or another appeal went to Common Pleas
Court, who can keep up at this point - but you get the idea. )
In October of 2009, Abington Township, Jenkintown, and
Development Unit Acquisition, LP (successor interest to Foxcroft
Square Apartment Associates, L.P.) entered into a settlement
agreement whereby the landowner is entitled to land development
approval with administrative review only so long as it is
"substantially in conformance" with the plan as set forth in
the Exhibit to the settlement agreement. That plan proposed 76
units in two four-story buildings. The plan for 76 units
complied with the H-1 Unit Classification under the zoning
code at that time.
In addition, the 2009 Settlement Agreement
called for
administrative review only of
the land development plan despite
its failure to comply with the Abington Zoning
Ordinance or the Subdivision and Land
Development Ordinance (SALDO)...... so long as
it substantially conforms to the plan attached
to the 2009 Agreement.
2018
Drawings of the current Plan are below that were presented
to the Jenkintown Borough Council in October of
2018
THE 2020 PROPOSAL
The Preliminary/Final Land Development
Plan proposed at the Planning Commission
January 28,2020 consisted of s one
building with 104 units.The height of the
proposed building is lower than that in the
original plan, and the building layout will
cover less square footage than the previous
plan. Of note, a 76-unit apartment project
complied with the zoning ordinance applicable at
the time of the settlement agreement in 2009,
but would not meet the current zoning ordinance.
So there will be no further public review.
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