The focus of East Allen Township’s workshop meeting April 10 was to hear a conditional use application from Imperial Realty Property Group. The applicant delayed the hearing and asked for it to be rescheduled.

Conditional use hearings are handled at workshop sessions. The hearing was rescheduled for May 8.

Imperial Realty has a commercial development on the southwest corner of the intersection of Route 329 and Airport Road. The location is across from the new warehouse development under construction by Vertec.

The crux of the development is a series of small office or warehouse buildings that cater to small business owners.

Because the hearing was delayed, the proposal is unknown.

The company came before the board in 2018 asking for permission to tie into Bath’s sewer system because clients were running into problems with the existing on-site septic systems. The status of wastewater treatment is likely to be a part of the hearing.

The board of supervisors looked at legislation and projects under review by Pennsylvania State Association of Township Supervisors. The township will send a delegate to the conference and is required to give direction to the delegate in open session.

The board generally agreed with PSATS recommendations. However, there were a few exceptions. Supervisors did not endorse a program to support wireless broadband for rural areas.

They did not agree on a restriction for tire fees. The new direction is that old tires need to be left at a place where they can be collected. In East Allen, farmers use old tires on farm machinery.

Supervisors opposed pay raises for township officials and opposed an increase in taxes.

Supervisors also approved a nearly half-million-dollar road project that would use chip and stone overlays for township roads. Supervisors endorsed the chip/tar program over a more costly asphalt paving program.