We admit The Reporter spotlighting our efforts successful your December 11th “Neighbors Oppose Medical Center Plan” article, though we privation to acceptable the grounds consecutive connected immoderate cardinal items. To start, we are not opposed to Penn Medicine; rather, we question wherefore Penn, dissimilar its other locations, is choosing to make a parcel of onshore that is successful the mediate of a residential community.
As locals, of course, we person worries for our neighborhood, though our concerns are rooted in however this affects the wider community:
• Questionable zoning: Montgomery Township softly changed the zoning codification for this tract without notifying the surrounding community.
• Traffic: With an estimated 4,000+ trips a time to this site, the adjacent postulation jams that already beryllium on Welsh and Knapp Roads volition importantly multiply.
• Safety: the 4-story, 780 spaces parking store lacks immoderate readying for due information measures to mitigate the accrued nationalist information risks inherent with specified a complex.
• Poor planning: the analyzable is inconsistent with the stated township strategical efforts for much “green” abstraction arsenic the country becomes overcrowded and overbuilt.
• Displaced wildlife: pinned-in by ever-encroaching development, assorted wildlife have made the spot their refuge and volition beryllium dispersed into the surrounding communities and roadway postulation by specified a large-scale development.
Additionally, the interaction volition beryllium a important burden, placed by the full township, connected conscionable one community:
• A 75-foot gathering volition virtually beryllium successful our backyards (a specified 140 feet from certain properties). While this won’t beryllium pleasing to look at, much importantly, it presents serious information and privateness concerns astir visitors, unit and others who tin surveil our houses, families and yards.
• Turning retired of our vicinity into postulation is already hard owed to a unsafe blind curve wherever cars contention to the adjacent intersection. This hazard, combined with a daily percent of mislaid Penn visitors traveling our neighborhood, volition adhd importantly more hazard to nationalist safety.
• Water displacement from this gathering volition exacerbate already hard issues with flooded yards and homes, a interest galore of our neighbors crossed Montgomery Township share.
To larn more, sojourn our Facebook leafage astatine Oppose the Penn Ambulatory Center | Facebook and motion our petition astatine Petition · Oppose the Penn Ambulatory Center · Change.org.
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