Moon Supervisors to Further Restrict Parking Near High School

Residents of Bradley Drive said despite new restrictions, parking overflow from the nearby is a worsening problem in their neighborhood.

Residents voiced concern last night at the township workshop meeting, calling for tougher restrictions for on-street parking in the Bradley, Springer and Patton drive neighborhood.

Bradley Drive homeowner William Czyzewicz said residents have found condoms, underwear and food wrappers on lawns, where students park nearby.

Clutching a plastic bag filled with trash littered on his front yard, Czyzewicz asked the board to place more stringent restrictions on student parking in the neighborhood.

“We’re very concerned about this and it’s getting tougher,” he said. “These issues are coming up more and more frequently.”

Another Bradley Drive resident, Catherine Yaksetic, said she called after her young daughter was followed home by teenage boys in a car.

“It made her afraid,” she said. “Now she doesn’t want to walk home alone.”

Earlier this year, the board passed for the residential streets during daytime hours to combat traffic and parking congestion from high school drivers. Residents, however, say littering and noise remain a problem. 

The township will soon introduce permit parking for residents only on the streets.

 “We don’t think there’s a safety issue in terms of traffic,” said Moon Manager Jeanne Creese. “But a nuisance issue certainly remains.”

Students began parking in the neighborhood off University Boulevard after the opening of the new Moon high school earlier this year, when parking spaces became scarce for students. Police Chief Leo McCarthy told the board that parking overflow would make it difficult for emergency vehicles to travel the streets.

Other items of interest from the meeting: 

• The board approved the Moon 2012 minimum municipal obligation of $216,430 for the Non-Uniformed Pension Plan as well as the $551,691 minimum obligation for the Uniformed Pension Plan.

• The board granted a bond reduction to newly constructed School of Business complex.

• The board agreed to defer the lease payment to the township by another six months.

• The board was given an update on the ongoing effort to revise the township’s oil and gas drilling ordinances in regard to potential Marcellus shale drilling in the township. Special counsel Gavin Robb attended the meeting to brief the board on the status of the effort.

• The board agreed to appoint a new trustee to former township manager Greg Smith’s deferred compensation plan trust fund. Resident Kathy Tress will now serve as trustee. Smith, who served as township manager from 1984 to 2009, is the township and board of supervisors for more than $200,000, citing wrongful termination. 

• Township engineer Malcolm Petroccia said New Castle-based Forbes Excavating has begun work on the .  He said crews, which are being contracted by property owner New Pointe Realty, have begun clearing trees from the bottom of the hillside and will soon begin excavation work.