Adams Township

ADAMS TWP — Supervisors gave the green light to an amended plan for the Quincy Heights housing development during their meeting on Monday night, Jan. 22.

The planned development would be located near the intersection of Route 228 and Seven Fields Boulevard. When it was first approved by the board in April, the plans for Quincy Heights called for 480 apartment units, 20 patio homes, nearly 60 townhouses, and an assisted living center, along with retail space.

In the revised plans, the assisted living component has been removed.

“We took out the senior living component because right now the economics don't work,” said attorney John Kamin of the firm Goldberg, Kamin & Garvin. “Everything else is more or less the same.”

The new plans call for at least 90 townhomes for sale and 369 apartments for rent. The developers, Continental Real Estate, hope to begin construction by spring.

Earlier in the meeting, the board opted to table a resolution to grant final subdivision planning approval to the planned Mandera housing development.

This development, overseen by Victor Wetzel Associates, would go near the municipal line with Cranberry Township and was given preliminary approval at the board’s meeting in June.

Chairman Russell Ford and the rest of the board determined there were too many lingering concerns about the development even after the township’s planning commission approved it.

These include the question of which entity would provide sewer service to the property: the Breakneck Creek Regional Authority or Cranberry Township. Coincidentally, the two entities are still hashing out terms of the renewal of their intermunicipal agreement, which was discussed at the authority’s own meeting the following night.

“When the developer comes to this board, it should be ready for us to say yes or no,” Ford said. “There should not be a 10-minute dissertation on things that still need to be done. How can we stand up here and approve this when we just did a five minute engineering statement?”