Rail-To-Trail Study Leaves Landowners In A Quandary On Monday evening a meeting there was “no use studying any- ; . , . , of the Warwick Township Reciea- more I think we studied long land, a substantial portion of land intent of study —it was merely a don Advisory Committee was held enough” making up the proposed system, fact-gathering effort No legal pro in the Warwick Township munici- Another landowner asked the cannot be allowed. ceedings were under way to pal building. committee, “Why spend $15,000 if Farms that potentially make up acquire any land and turn any land The ongoing study may have you know people don’t want it?” to® proposed rail-to-trail system into a rails-to-trails system, reached a new head when a majori- One of the most critical oppo- include Robert C. Wenger, on The study was funded in half by ty of landowners, disgruntled by nents of the proposed rail-to-trail whose tract the proposed system the Pennsylvania Department of their thoughts and issues regarding system is Gerald R. Pfautz, whose crosses through. Also included are Conservation and Natural Resour ce proposed rail-to-trail system farm borders to the north of the Noah B. and Mabel H. Hurst, to the ces (DCNR) and the other half between Clay Road and Newport trail. He pointed out an article from north; Gerald R. and Rachel A. through developers in the town- Road east of Lititz in Warwick r anractw Farmland Trust that Pfautz, also to the north; Marvin K. ship. The study’s purpose is to take Township, told the advisory com- appeared in last week’s issue of Patricia A. Winner; and Isaac into- account issues of land and mittee that they’d heard enough. Lancaster farming that noted s - an ? Ada L. Zimmerman. homeowners that live in the Oak Noah R. Hurst, whose property preserved Sums can never be This was second meeting of Street area of Lititz Borough and borders the proposed trail system developed for nnnagrimlhirai pu r- to® committee. The purpose of the extending all the way from Clay to the north, told the directors that poses and using preserved farm- meeting, Zimmerman noted, was Road to Newport Road in War to clear up misunderstanding of the wick Township. £3*=? - Thc puipose of recent meeting in the 1 fields, publicly adver tised to the landowners, was to inform them of the study and to involve them in the process, according to Dan Zim merman, township manager. Zimmerman men tioned that there was a list of approximately 26 issues addressed at the farm meeting. He noted to the landowners that the township “cannot purchase the right of way from a preserved farm.” However, after the feasibility study is complete and if the landowners show inter est in proceeding with the proposed rails-to trails in the township, then the township can request an “access ease ment” fora 30-foot wide strip, formerly occupied by the Reading Rail road, that includes land owned by the five farm landowners. In 1989, the Reading Railroad sold its vested interest in the rails and the right of way resorted back, by law, to proper ty owners. Now it is simply a 10-foot dust lane. However, Richard Hughes from Wilkes- Barre purchased a deed to lay claim for a 60-foot right of way on the prop erty—an issue that also (Turn to Page A 34) ANDY ANDREWS Lancaster Farming Staff LITITZ (Lancaster Co.) In March, as part of a $15,400 feasi bility study funded half by the state and half by township developers. 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