Thursday, April 05, 2007

 

Pike seeks rezoning to shield itself from new landfills

BY Malcolm Hall
The Canton Repository

PIKE TWP - Hoping to ward off any more landfills in this part of the county, officials want to rezone 860.9 acres of Pike Township's southern edge.

The plan calls for the area to be restricted to multifamily residential use. Currently, most of the targeted land, which sits south of Ullet Street SW and west of Ridge Avenue SW, is zoned for general industrial use. A small portion is zoned for two-family residential.

"The main reason is to prevent any other landfill from coming into Pike Township," said Linda Zaleski, who chairs the Zoning Commission....Read more.