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Road project may add walkway to Riverview Park

LOCKPORT — Veterans Bridge and Riverview Park may one day be linked with an inviting walkway.

The Woodward Township supervisors talked about the concept at their meeting Tuesday evening. They plan to sit down with representatives from the Clinton County planning office and PennDOT to discuss it and the overall project of rehabilitating that section of Farrandsville Road on March 2 at 2 p.m.

The project would rebuild the road but not straighten it, so the mountain probably won’t be carved into, the supervisors noted.

The walkway is proposed for the river side of Farrandsville Road, and this may mean the loss of a few river lots, Supervisor Brian J. Hoy said.

He did call such a sidewalk “a great idea,” and Supervisor Chair Kyle A. Coleman said the overall project would be “a good upgrade on that road.”

The road project and walkway could be funded with a PennDOT grant.

The township’s funding request to improve Lockport Boat Launch was denied by the Clinton County Community Foundation, Coleman reported. The recreation committee will look into a different grant.

The annual Woodward Township Easter Egg Hunt will be held at Riverview Park at 2 p.m. on Sunday, March 25 (with March 31 as the rain date). More eggs will be added this year, Coleman said, and the egg area will be expanded.

The township will no longer require property owners to get stickers for the recreational vehicles they place on their private river lots, above the parks. The township will, however, continue to enforce the flood plain ordinance, which requires those vehicles to be licensed and road-ready and to move off the lot after 179 days. A letter will be sent to the appropriate land owners about the change, and the supervisors will have to remove the sticker requirement from the flood plain ordinance.

The nonprofit Lock Haven Soccer Academy, owned and operated by Cole Black, was given permission to use Riverview Park on Sundays and Wednesdays from 5 to 6:15 p.m. The academy plans to use the park from April 8 to June 10, and from Sept. 9 to Nov. 18. This should not interfere with Soccer Shots which uses the park on Thursdays.

The supervisors met in a closed-door session to discuss the legal issue it will take up in a special meeting tonight at 7 p.m. The Woodward supervisors plan to meet with the Dunnstable Township supervisors and their solicitor tonight to discuss what Coleman described as a potential agreement about the boundary between the two municipalities.

A court hearing on the matter has been scheduled for March 16 at 1:30 p.m., but Coleman said, “There’s a positive resolution on the table.”

Coleman also suggested the township pay for an appraisal of a slice of the Woodward Elementary School’s large lawn, next to the municipal building. The township would like to acquire a piece roughly 100 feet by 300 feet to expand access, and possibly add onto the building someday. He has spoken to the Keystone Central School Board and the school district property manager about the idea, he said, and they seemed receptive. With an appraisal, the township could make an offer and negotiate a price, he said.

A zoning hearing had been scheduled recently on the proposed drug and alcohol rehabilitation center on property owned by Dr. Robert C. “Doc” Wise. This has been rescheduled until March 22, at 6 p.m. at Dunnstown Fire Hall.

A special exception had been granted for the center last year, but now the developer, Dr. Robert C. “Bobby” Wise II, would like to change the placement of the main access onto the property, from Coudersport Pike (Route 664) to Hunter Hollow Road.

Hunter Hollow Road could not accommodate the traffic in its current condition, Hoy remarked.

In other matters, Theresa Jacobs remarked about crime, from a car being stolen from a trailer park, to people roaming about neighborhoods in the wee hours of the morning, something she says she sees regularly and that seems to her to indicate illegal drug use. She said she hopes the police department has a plan to combat it. Police Chief Steve Falotico said he is aware of her concerns.

Coleman volunteered to serve as the township’s primary voting delegate on the tax collection committee which meets quarterly under the auspices of Keystone Central School District. Hoy is the first alternate, with new supervisor Wayne Love named as the second alternate.

More trees on Doc Wise’s property at Hickory Drive have drivers concerned, and Coleman said about 10 of them appear to be dead and need to be removed. Wise will be sent a letter it. He had removed other hazardous trees a few years ago from the same property when a survey proved he was responsible for them, the supervisors noted.

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