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
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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.
Dan Zimmerman, township direc
tor, met in the fields with five far
mers from Warwick Township.
The purpose of the meeting:
field questions and record con
cerns that farm landowners may
have regarding a proposed rail-to
trail made up of an old railroad
track once owned by the Reading
Railroad.
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