The Salisbury Township Planning Commission acted on four items at its Dec. 3 meeting, which was its first meeting since August.

Meetings in September and October were canceled because of a lack of submissions to planners for review.

The fourth item on the agenda of the Dec. 3 meeting for a minor subdivision at 1763 Broadway, submitted by Green Hammer Properties, LLC, was reviewed and recommended for approval by a unanimous 7-0 vote by planners.

Planner Jimmy Brown made the motion, seconded by planner Holly Weiss, to bring the item to a vote.

The proposal is to subdivide the property into three lots and develop a single-family, detached dwelling on Lot No. 1 and semidetached (twin) units on Lots No. 2 and 3 with required infrastructure and site improvements.

The overall lot size is 18,750-square-feet.

Lot No. 1 will contain 8,750-square-feet.

Lots No. 2 and 3 will each contain 5,000-square-feet.

Each lot will have frontage along Broadway.

The property in the R4 Medium Density Residential zoning district is vacant land.

The proposal was before planners at the August and May meetings.

“They made some changes,” Joshua Fry, department head, Municipal Engineering Services, Barry Isett & Associates, consulting engineering firm for Salisbury Township said.

“They have revised their plan,” Fry continued, noting a retaining wall will not be built. “They will make that up with the foundation,” Fry said, adding, “They will not be cutting into the slope.”

Storm sewer lines will connect to the township system and, upon completion, will be dedicated to the township as a public right of way.

Salisbury Township Planning and Zoning Officer Kerry Rabold said a highway occupancy permit would need to be obtained from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation for each driveway.

Rabold said the developer would be required to pay $4,000 in a recreation fee to the township.

Two of the other decisions by planners pertained to one project.

Planners voted 7-0 to recommend a statement of “no comment” on a motion by planners Vice Chair Jessica Klocek, seconded by Richard Hassick, for the petition to vacate Trout Street between South Gilmore Street and South Halstead Street.

“We have reviewed it. We don’t have any concerns from an engineering perspective. We will provide a report to the commissioners,” Fry said. The township commissioners would make the final decision on the item.

Planners voted 7-0 to recommend approval of the lot consolidation project submitted by Victor and Niurky Santiago to consolidate properties at 710 E. Wayne Ave. and 710 E. Trout St.

The property at 710 E. Wayne Ave. is improved with a single-family detached dwelling.

The property at 710 E. Trout St. is improved with a private swimming pool.

The combined property will contain 65,000 square feet and will remain as a single-family detached dwelling with accessory swimming pool.

No development is proposed at this time.

Each property is in the R4, Medium Density Residential zoning district.

The vacating of the street pertains to the lot consolidation. “The whole alley is going to be vacated,” Rabold said.

“The lot consolidation now brings the lot into compliance,” Rabold said, noting there was a setback problem. “The pool did not have a fence and putting a fence around it, it would have been in the setback,” Rabold said.

Concerning a fourth item on the Dec. 3 agenda, planners voted 7-0 to recommend “no comment” on a motion by planners Chair Richard Schreiter, seconded by Klocek, for a petition to vacate an unnamed right of way located behind 1801 Broadway between another unnamed right of way and Acker Street.

The upcoming December Salisbury Township municipal meeting schedule in the municipal building, 2900 S. Pike Ave., includes: 7 p.m. Dec. 10, zoning hearing board; 7 p.m. Dec. 11, board of commissioners; 7 p.m. Dec. 17, environmental advisory council and 7 p.m. Dec. 23, board of commissioners.

The Dec. 23 commissioners’ meeting might be canceled if the 2026 budget, which is on the agenda of the Dec. 11 meeting, is approved.