Hampton youth swimmers will be allowed to have organized activities at the township pool as officials have amended their covid-19 reopening and future operations plan.
Hampton Athletic Association ball players will also be on township fields a little earlier than expected as council voted 4-0 Wednesday night to adopt a resolution permitting organized sports teams/clubs to begin use of township facilities effective Monday.
Councilwoman Bethany Blackburn was absent.
The original reopening plan was adopted in May and prohibited the Hampton Dolphins, or any swim club, from having team activities at the pool this season.
Township Manager Christopher Lochner said Gov. Tom Wolf had restricted activities to 25 people or less at the time, and the Dolphins have about 100 participants.
Restrictions on gatherings in the green phase of the state’s reopening plan, which Allegheny County is in, were recently loosened to 250 people allowing for more activities to take place.
Use of the township’s baseball complex and fields were originally planned to be allowed by July 1.
Lochner said council needed to adopt a resolution to make any changes to the reopening plan because it was a legislative document and adopted via resolution.
No other changes to the 83-page plan were made Wednesday night. It is available for review via the township’s website.
Council President Michael Peters said a lot of time and effort was put in the plan to ensure safe operations during the covid-19 pandemic.
“The plan was very well throughout by the staff and the manager,” said Peters. “We paid a great amount of attention (to it). The whole council was involved in developing the plan in conjunction with the governor’s guidelines and guidelines from (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention).
“I believe it’s worked out very well. We are trying to be as flexible as we can to go with the flexible situation in the covid-19 crisis. It has helped us to reopen with the safety and well-being of the residents in mind.”
Planning and zoning
Council unanimously authorized staff to develop a new comprehensive zoning ordinance.
Land Use Administrator Amanda Gold-Lukas said the ordinance was last updated in 2017, and various zoning-related amendments have been adopted since then.
Zoning issues to be addressed in the updated ordinance include solar panels, timber harvesting, medical marijuana, fireworks, massage therapy establishments, oil and gas, elimination of zoning inspections, home-based daycare facilities and chickens in residential areas.
“The township doesn’t update its zoning ordinance every time an amendment is passed,” Gold-Lukas said. “It would waste a lot of money because there’s a very lengthy legal process you have to go through to amend a zoning ordnance.”
Updating the zoning ordinance would also make it easier for residents to find information, she said.
“It’s not great to have people sift through 15 different documents just to find what they need,” she said.
The process is expected to take at least 120 days, and it would provide residents some time to comment on any changes.
Council also granted extensions through July 22 to Eat’n Park for a revised site plan/conditional use application and a conditional use application involving the North Park Sports Complex.
Eat’n Park wants to demolish an existing location along Route 8 and build a more modern restaurant at that site.
Complex officials want to be able to rent space to groups for trade shows and other activities in an effort to help raise revenue.
Michael DiVittorio is a Tribune-Review staff writer. You can contact Michael at 412-871-2367, mdivittorio@triblive.com or via Twitter .
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