ADAMS TWP — Township supervisors Monday tabled a vote on final approval for the Quincy Heights plan, a major 42-acre housing and commercial development being built near Route 228, until next month’s meeting due to a lack of documentation.

“We don’t do anything based on contingencies,” board of supervisors co-chairman Ronald J. Shemela said. “In other words, we don’t approve until everything is in order.”

Shemela said developers of the Quincy Heights plan have worked professionally with the board of supervisors, and the missing documentation wasn’t a major issue. The documentation in question was a development agreement for the land.

A second development plan also was given an extension and tabled Monday.

The Mandera housing plan sparked debate among residents and the developers at the meeting. The issue in question for the nine-lot subdivision involves a well on the property that may or may not be a gas well.

Representatives for the developers said they brought two experts to the property to look at the well, and both determined it was a water well. They also claimed to have spoken with a representative from the the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection who said that a permit would not be required to build there as long as grading is not done near the well.

Two residents spoke at the meeting, with one saying that one of the two experts that identified the well as a water well told the resident’s father that he did not identify the well as a water well. The company had no documentation as to whether or not the well is a water well as well as no documentation to prove that the DEP conversation happened. The board voted to give the company a two-month extension to allow it time to provide documentation to the issues.

“My dad knows John Minor, the well builder, and he called him,” said resident Al Buehler. “John said that he never said that it was a water well. So where you’re getting this ‘he said, she said’ I don’t know. But he says that he never said that. There’s no documentation. Where’d you come up with that?”

Phase three of the Sunrise Acres development plan was unanimously approved following a recommendation from the planning commission. Phase one and two of the development are nearing completion, and phase three is simply turning apartment lots to housing.

The board also appointed Greg White to fill a vacancy on the township’s Municipal Water Authority board. White, a retired engineer, has lived in the township for approximately 30 years and has both budget and engineering experience.

Two candidates for local offices in the May primary election introduced themselves to the board. David Goodworth, Republican, announced his candidacy for a position on the board of supervisors at the meeting. He serves on the Parks and Recreation Board and is chairman of the Friends of Adams Township.

Butler County Common Pleas Court judge candidate and current assistant district attorney Terry Shultz also introduced herself at the meeting. She is running against Maura Palumbi, an attorney in the district attorney’s office, to replace Judge William Shaffer, who retired in January 2022 and serves as a senior judge. Shultz said that she plans on visiting all of Butler County’s areas prior to the election.