Cranberry OKs store development, home changes
CRANBERRY TWP — The Meeder development will have seven fewer units when fully constructed after supervisors approved the developer’s change requests Thursday.
Phase 8 of the development will now have 58, rather than 67, residential units, while Phase 9 will grow slightly, from 35 to 37 units, in an attempt to incorporate more types of housing and reorient other houses.
Ron Henshaw, the township’s director of planning and development services, said the builder, Charter Homes, plans to eliminate the “loft units” — essentially back-to-back townhouses — in Phase 8, replacing them with four 10-unit apartment buildings. The 10-unit buildings will be three stories high.
The new plans also call for the “reconfiguration” of some townhouses. Originally, a set of townhouses close to the Unionville-Main Street roundabout would have been parallel to Unionville; they have been adjusted to be more parallel to the outer lane of the roundabout.
The board also approved a request for a new, four-building development at the site of the current Dairy Queen on Route 19.
The commercial development will feature a new, 4,162-square-foot Dairy Queen building, with a drive-thru lane, slightly to the south of its current site, along with a second, 1,650-square-foot restaurant slightly to the north of the current DQ location.
To the east of the two restaurants will be two retail buildings totaling roughly 13,000 square feet.
“With this is future access points to the north and to the south if those properties ever want to redevelop and connect to this,” Henshaw added.
In addition to the redevelopment of the Dairy Queen site, Henshaw said there will be a traffic signal at Route 19 and Progress Avenue, which would also include the entrance to the small commercial development.
