At last night’s White Township Planning Commission Meeting, the proposed Ben Franklin Project was formally denied while another project was given conditional approval.
While the Indiana School Board announced on Monday that they would not go through with the proposed 900-student Ben Franklin Elementary School project, the plans for that project were officially rejected at Tuesday’s White Township Planning Commission Meeting due to a lack of approval from a PennDOT traffic study. Assistant Township Manager Chris Anderson said that approval on the traffic study did not come in on time, and that was the reason why it was rejected officially.
In other business, the final site plan for construction at the IndiGo station on Saltsburg Avenue was given conditional approval. The site plans include construction of a new compressed natural gas station that will be open to the public. Anderson said the condition they have to fill is to make a wider lane for buses to turn without going out onto the road and across the center line to get buses to turn around. Since IndiGo owns some more land, they are willing to make the change to make that turning lane.
Construction on the IndiGo station is slated to start next year.
