At the 23 April 2025 BOS meeting, Newtown supervisors awarded the 2025 road contract to James Morrissey, Inc. who came in with the low bid of $842,132.85 to repave 2.51 miles of roads.
The roads to be repaved include Poppy Court & Snowdrop Place, Wexley Drive, Cliveden Drive (from 15 Cliveden Dr. to 105 Cliveden Dr), Meridian Circle, High Street, more...
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Further Notes:
Roads require repaving approximately every 20 years. Thus, Newtown must repave about 4 miles of its approximately 80 miles of roads each year just to maintain current conditions. For the period of 2019 through 2025, on average, only 2.9 miles of roads have been repaved per year! See chart above..
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At the 9 April 2025 Newtown Board of Supervisors meeting, supervisor Mack asked Police Chief Hearn about installing speed indicator signs in the Woods of Saxony (WOS) and Country Bend (CB) Neighborhoods.
Yorkshire Dr and Davis Ln, respectively, in these neighborhoods, are used as shortcuts from Lower Dolington Rd to Washington Crossing Rd and Linton Hill Rd, respectively. And to be effective as shortcuts, cars must speed through these neighborhoods. Pole-mounted speed indicator signs - such as the ones used in the Borough - would help especially since decoy police cars and the trailer-mounted speed sign cannot be deployed for long periods on these roads.
View the video...
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Further Comments:
The Chief explained that the old signs that monitor speed that are owned by Newtown are between 10-15 years old and battery operated. They last only a couple of days at best, and are not deployed in the winter months because the battery life is dramatically less with the cold climate, and they fail to work. As the weather breaks, the signs are placed at problem areas in the early morning hours, attached to an already mounted street sign, and removed again when charging needs to take place, usually in a couple to a few days at most.
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This is my personal summary of the April 9, 2025, meeting of the #NewtownPA Township Board of Supervisors (BOS).
Agenda Items
- Public Comment
- Reports of Board Members
- Land Development
- Consent Agenda
- Police Chief Hearn Report
- Other Business
- Official Video
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Further Comments:
The BOS requested that the Solicitor investigate a class-action law suit filed by Upper Makefield residents regarding the leaking Sunoco pipeline. Specifically, supervisors asked the solicitor to determine if Upper Makefield was a party to the case and, if so, advise Newtown Township if it too can be a party to the case.
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BOS meeting summaries, BOS voting record for the year, a glossary of terms, an index, and links to documents and data - all in ONE document.
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the Concept?
Newtown Creek bridge concept by HOWELL ENGINEERING
The Newtown Creek Coalition has reviewed the proposals received in response to the RFP for the engineering contract for the Newtown Creek pedestrian bridge design. The Coalition recommended awarding a contract for professional services to HOWELL ENGINEERING in the amount of $114,750.00.
At its 23 April 2025 meeting, the Newtown Board of Supervisors (BOS) approved awarding the contract to Howell and approved all easements/documents associated with the design of the bridge.
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Further Notes:
Realizing that the design process has not yet started, I must say the that HOWELL concept (Figure 1) lacks the idyllic “bucolic ambience” we have come to expect in Newtown Borough and in the Township. The location is unique by virtue of its history as part of the route of the Bucks County Interurban Railway, which operated a trolley line between Bristol and Doylestown until it was terminated in 1923. JUST SAYIN’
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The approved 413 Durham Rd plan
Durham Investment, LP on Wednesday, 9 April 2025, received final plan approval to build a daycare center and a medical office on Route 413 just to the north of the township complex. The vote was 4-1 with John Mack voting NO because of traffic concerns expressed by residents - see below* for details.
At the meeting, Mr. Mack asked the atty representing the developer “You just mentioned sewer capacity… Is that what we refer to as EDUs [Equivalent Dwelling Units]? I thought there were no EDUs available for further development in Newtown is that true?”
Yes, it is true! The project will have to wait until the developer is able to secure sewer capacity from the Bucks County Water and Sewer Authority. Consequently, it might be a while before the 10,000-square-foot daycare center and the 6,000-square-foot medical/general office building are built on the slightly less than five-acre parcel located just to the north of the township building on Durham Road.
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At the 8 April 2025 Newtown Bucks County Joint Municipality Authority (NBCJMA, aka Sewer Authority) Board meeting, Peter Jordan - the leader of the Stop the Plant Technical Advisory Committee - asked the Sewer Authority Board to formally respond to the following three related questions:
- How could a plant with a design capacity of 2.5 million gallons per day (MGD) be built when the flow rates were above the proposed design capacity approximately 23% of the time between 2016 and 2024, and the average monthly flow rates ni January, March, and April 2024 were 3 MGD?
- How can you claim that Newtown's rainwater and groundwater inflow/infiltration (I/I) has been taken care of when the flow data indicates that there was no reduction in rainwater and groundwater inflow/infiltration (I/I) between 2018 and 2024?
- Can you provide any concrete examples that Newtown has been denied EDU permits by BCWSA due to lack of capacity in the Neshaminy Interceptor since the moratorium was lifted?
View the video, which includes remarks from NBCJMA hired consultants, but no answers from Board members.
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