Zoning violations at Chesley Office Campus are detrimental to adjoining neighborhoods, undermine township property values, and potentially set dangerous precedents. Nether Providence residents: Ask township officials to enforce the code! Click on the "petition" button above for details and to sign. Please note your street in the "comment" box so that we can demonstrate interest throughout Nether Prov.
UPDATE: Thanks to NP Township Manager Gary Cummings and the Commissioners for progress that has been made to date. Formal zoning violation notices have been issued. The last of the four spotlights were turned off on July 2 at township request. Initial landscaping plans are on the table.
PHOTO CHANGED July 9: before and after views from our porch
June 30, 2015
To Nether Providence Township Board of Commissioners,
We are residents and homeowners in Nether Providence writing to express our concern about the multiple zoning violations presently taking place at #102 Chesley Office Campus (under Chapter 300, Article XV of the township code). These violations include:
1. the removal of a code-mandated vegetative buffer strip that had shielded the adjoining residential district;
2. the placement of a generator close to residences, within the mandated buffer zone and without mandated screening;
3. the use of lights that create significant intrusive glare into nearby homes.
The violations have resulted in an extreme loss of privacy for adjacent homeowners and created a visual blight affecting two different neighborhoods--Wesley Manor and Bowling Green--which has damaged not only quality of life but also property values throughout those two areas.
We urge the Board of Commissioners to investigate this situation and act promptly to ensure that the protections guaranteed to residents by the code are fully enforced.
We are additionally concerned that precedents are being set in this situation that will negatively affect other township residents in the future, especially in light of other commercial properties for sale at Chesley and at Summit School. We expect that the Commissioners will ensure that the Township Code is fully enforced in both letter and spirit, with the interests of the residents at heart.
Thank you.
