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jlThe Editor Jj
Dear editor:
I have just read your
editorial on the Pequea
Township Zoning Ordinance
and I beheve that several of
the statements contained
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therein are totally unfair,
misleading and create an
impression that the Board of
Supervisors is deliberately
attemptmg to circumvent
input from the farming
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community Nothing could
be further from the truth
The September 24, 1980
date set for adoption of the
Ordinance was set by my
office with one purpose in
mind to have the effective
date prior to September 30,
1980 to comply with the
Federal Government’s
timetable that the floodplain
provisions of the Ordinance
had to go into effect by that
date Nobody m my office
knew that there was a
Lampeter fair in the first
place, and in the second
place had not the slightest
idea when it even took place
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I indicated this fact to Pat
Kauffman approximately a
week ago, but in spite of this
fact, apparently your office
decided to print this in
sinuation without checking it
out.
As above indicated, I think
that this is totally
misleading and unfair to the
governmental officials of
Pequea Township. In this
regard, I know without
question that the Board of
Supervisors and the Plan
ning Commission welcome
the input of the farming
community with regard to
the Ordinance This has
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always been the case and
many of the agriculturally
oriented proolems that have
arisen in the past have been
reviewed with certain
members of the farming
community before action
was taken
I think your comment with
regard to the rush is also
totally improper and unfair
No municipality can adopt
the floodplain regulations to
meet the federal guidelines
until all the mappmg is done
After this mappmg is done,
the time period for im
plementation is qmte short
and I felt very strongly that
the floodplain regulations
should be made a part of the
total package which con
stitutes the revisions to the
Zoning Ordinance. Pequea
Township would
unquestionably incur ad
ditional advertising and
hearing costs if total
adoption does not take place
at one time. It was for this
reason that the timetable
was set up as it was.
I should further add that
the critical date is not
September 24, 1980 because
we certainly anticipate
having all of the “bugs”
worked out by that date. On
the contrary, the critical
date is September 4, 1980
when the Planning Com
mission will hold its public
hear mg. After this public
hearing the Supervisors and
the Planning Commission
will be able to review and
digest the comments from
all facets of the community
and then make those
changes that are necessary
to adopt a fair Ordinance for
the benefit of all residents of
Pequea Township.
Consequently, I again
point out to you that the
September 4 date is the
critical one.
My comments above are
also geared to your language
such as “railroad through a
whole zoning package”. This
kind of editorial com
mentary in Lancaster
County has not, in my
opinion, ever sat very well
with the reading public. If
you are attempting to sen
sationalize the matter, I
think that you should have
all your facts straight before
writing and making com
ments in this form.
It is my personal belief,
without having the facts
substantiated by either the
Planning Commission or the
Supervisors of Pequea
Township, that several of the
items contained in the Or
dinance as originally drafted
may be too restrictive (m
particular, paragraph 3 of
Section 1912) and need
review and possible
elimination.
The thrust of this letter is
not to ward off legitimate
comments with regard to the
nature of the Ordinance.
Certainly those comments in
your article that are
designed to constitute fair
comment should be printed.
My objections center around
the form that the article took
and the making of several
remarks concerning the
scheduling which are totally
unfair and incorrect.
Charles B. Grove, Jr.
Pequea Township Solicitor
Dear Editor,
Too often we in the com
munity at large hear only of
the negative thmgs young
people do, either overlooking
or never learning of all the
fine constructive positive
thin;. greater majority
of our young people do in
their spare time.
We also overlook the
handsful of adults who
support our >oong people in
the accomplishment of these
endeavors, and in essence
are co-operating with all of
us who are parents of today’s
children, tomorrow’s world
shapers We need to say
thank you to them all many
times over, we who are or
are not presently parents.
Each of us can surely think
of parallels in relation to the
specific activities our own
youngsters are involved in;
for me of great impression is
what I have observed these
past months while my own
youngsters have par
ticipated in 4-H. I’ve sat in
attendance with my
youngsters (rather than
travelling out again in
round-tnp). There has been
a bit of tom-foolery as is
normal for healthy
youngsters, but over-all
there has been mutual in
terest and support among
the children each for the
other child’s needs in his
project, and the older youth
as I observed very ef
fectively drawing out
discussion from the shy or
younger members - one
young boy in a recent ex
perience being seen to
suddenly beam with joy as
he realized others were
actively interested in what
he had to say.
Others have helped the
young club-reporter clip
news releases from the
papers which he had no
access to, enabling him to do
well on his Reporter’s
notebook, have helped
gather needed parts fin* a
difficult project, etc.
Throughout the year I
have seen Mrs. Betty Rick,
our Sprmgtown Club’s adult
leader giving willing ear to
youngsters at monthly
meetings and over the
phone, taking time along
with her busy life of
responsibilities as mother
and as wife of a dairy far
mer. In addition to all this,
as a 4-H leader her time is
tied up also with a mound of
paper work that she must
complete, and with accuracy
of detail, if confusion and
disappointment among her
4-H’ers is to be avoided, and
they reap the rewards of
growth from the assortment
of project in which they
work. Betty has encouraged
parents and teens and other
folk from the community to
co-operate in her efforts with
our young people, some
lending their know-how to
guiding youngsters in their
projects; some who, like the
postmistress in our town,
afford avenue for display of
the youngsters projects.
Others like the judges
have spent numerous long
hours evaluating the growth
and quality of workmanship
all wrapped up m the
projects of each and every
child.
At Fair the caring of each
of these adults was
especially apparent. My own
youngsters waited at their
places up to 90 minutes until
the judge had the op
portunity to confer with him.
It would have seemed a long
wait were it not that the
judge spent adequate time
with each youngster drawing
out from the child as well as
imparting to him in
formation relative to the
endeavor; he gave each
youngster reasonable time
tho’ all the while he stood
mid the press of a myriad
others equally hot and
sweaty who were interested
in hearing what was to be
heard about something in
teresting (not to mention
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