ADAMS TWP — Township supervisors announced during its meeting on Monday night, March 10, it has made some progress in a dispute with developer Weaver Homes over payments for winter maintenance in the Camp Trees and Hickory Glen neighborhoods.

Supervisor Russell Ford said Adams Township and Weaver Homes have spent the past two weeks trying to resolve their differences and are close to an agreement to have the township adopt private roads in the Camp Trees neighborhood.

Both sides met in person for inspections at Camp Trees on March 3 and in Hickory Glen on March 5. Ford said the two sides have reached agreement on four out of five issues, and Weaver Homes has paid for two years’ worth of outstanding winter maintenance fees.

“There’s one outstanding document that needs to be agreed upon between both parties,” Ford said. “And once that’s done, we will begin the process to take over the roads.”

Chad Weaver, president of Weaver Homes, confirmed the company paid both years’ worth of fees on Friday, March 7.

“As far as I am concerned the ball is 100% in their court to adopt the roads,” Weaver said. “We have completed 100% of the work on the township’s punch list and it was reinspected by the township and they confirmed that the work is done.”

However, Ford added the two sides aren’t quite as close on an agreement to adopt the roads at Hickory Glen.

“There seems to be a few disagreements between the beginning to where we are today, what was in the plan, what was requested and what wasn’t,” Ford said. “Hickory Glen is moving forward, but it's not nearly as close as Camp Trees.”

“There are two additional items out there that have nothing to do with the road, but I am being told will preclude them from adopting the road if I don’t do what they want,” Weaver said.

The issue arose after Weaver Homes refused to pay thousands of dollars worth of fees over the winters of 2023 and 2024 for township performance of necessary winter maintenance, such as plowing and salting, on roads at the two neighborhoods.

For residential developments under construction in Penn Township, a winter maintenance agreement is a temporary arrangement until the township takes over the roads at the development — a process called adoption.

The issue was first brought up at the board of supervisors meeting on Feb. 24, which drew a packed house of concerned residents of the two affected neighborhoods. Those residents were informed of the issue when they received letters from both the township and Weaver Homes — each blaming the other for causing it.

In its letter to residents, Adams Township asserted its right to terminate performing winter maintenance at both neighborhoods, although the township denied at subsequent meetings it had any plans to actually do so.

In their letters to residents, Weaver Homes pinned the blame on Adams Township for dragging out the process of adopting the roads at both developments by making requests it felt were unnecessary.

“We have been in this business for 40 years, and in all that time, we have never had this much trouble with a township adopting a road,” Weaver wrote in its letter.

Chad Weaver was not present at either that meeting or the one on Monday night, March 10.