Friday, October 12, 2012
The Horsham Township Council terminates the Horsham Land Reuse Authority and transfers the body’s assets, rights and responsibilities.
Good-bye HLRA … Hello HLRA. The Horsham Township Council this week voted to formalize the termination of the planning arm of the Willow Grove air base redevelopment. That board, the 7-year-old Horsham Land Reuse Authority, has since been replaced by the Horsham Land Redevelopment Authority. Though the board’s names and members are similar, the new HLRA is tasked with picking up where the original HLRA left off. In essence, the new body, which the council formed this summer, will act as the implementation arm for the massive, 862-acre reuse plan. During the HLRAs’ meetings last month, the boards voted to dissolve the original HLRA and transfer assets and obligations - including $340,000 in debt - to the new board, which will oversee …
Thursday, October 4, 2012
Hatboro-Horsham is undertaking renovations to keep the aging Keith Valley Middle School ‘more functionally sound’ as the district awaits transfer of the former Willow Grove air base.
As Hatboro-Horsham School District plays the “waiting game” for federal government land earmarked for a new middle school, officials are looking to make upgrades to Keith Valley Middle School. The plan, according to Bob Reichert, the district’s director of business affairs, is to make the middle school “more functionally sound for the next few years” by upgrading its HVAC, plumbing, replacing windows and recent repairs to its electrical services. The system is now “pretty functionally sound,” Reichert said. “There’s not a huge risk of system failure.” Unlike the projected May or June transfer of the government property that houses the former Horsham Memorial Army Reserve Center - the future home of a new Hallowell Elementary School - a …
Hatboro-Horsham School District expects to take ownership of the former Horsham Memorial Army Reserve Center by May or June 2013.
One final round of environmental testing is the last hurdle before the Hatboro-Horsham School District can assume ownership of federal government land on Route 611. The likely home of Hallowell Elementary School, currently the shuttered Horsham Memorial Army Reserve Center, is undergoing environmental testing slated for completion in February 2013, according to Bob Reichert, the district’s director of business affairs. The district hired a firm to conduct similar tests in the spring, which concluded that the property did not warrant soil or groundwater remediation. Reichert said the land – which will be granted to the school district for free provided it’s used to house a new school – will be deeded to Hatboro-Horsham in May or June 2013. …
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
The newly established Horsham Land Redevelopment Authority approved a resolution to solicit proposals for completion of a business plan and pro forma.
In the space of 45 minutes, the 7-year-old Horsham Land Reuse Authority was dissolved, the newly chosen Horsham Land Redevelopment Authority was dubbed sole authority and wheels were put in motion to begin the next redevelopment phase for Willow Grove air base. During a pair of meetings Wednesday afternoon, both HLRAs approved the transfer of assets and obligations - including $340,000 in debt - to the new board, which will oversee the implementation of the reuse plan that the original HLRA adopted in March. The first board’s dissolution stemmed from the Office of Economic Adjustment’s recent designation of the Horsham Land Redevelopment Authority as the implementation authority. “OEA recognized this authority as the single voice," said …
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
The Horsham Township Council held a public hearing Wednesday regarding the Airport Crash and Noise Overlay District, but took no action.
The Horsham Township Council held off on amending the zoning to areas immediately surrounding the runway of shuttered Willow Grove air base. The governing body on Wednesday held a public hearing on the possible elimination of the so-called ACNOD, or Airport Crash and Noise Overlay District. No one from the public commented. Council President Mark McCouch said that the council would consider taking action at a later date. Township Manager Bill Walker told Patch afterward that the council must act within 90 days. If the zoning is lifted, property owners within that district – including those on Keith Valley Road, parts of County Line Road, as well as Commonwealth National Country Club, Valley View Estates, Lakeside Youth Service and Park …
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Flight enthusiasts were hoping to get approval from the federal government to allow a rare airplane to fly into the shuttered Willow Grove air base for display at the adjacent Wings of Freedom Museum.
One of two remaining circa 1931 PA-8 Mailwings will be disassembled and driven “home” to Horsham and reassembled soon after. The hope, according to Mark Hurwitz of Delaware Valley Historical Aircraft Association, was for the lightweight plane to fly from the Trenton-Robbinsville Airport and land – for its final flight – on the runway of the shuttered Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Willow Grove before being stowed at the neighboring Wings of Freedom Museum. But, the federal government, still the owners of the 1,100-acre former military base, quashed that idea by denying use of the runway. “We’re disappointed, but we’re not faulting them,” Hurwitz said. Instead, the rare plane will be taken apart by brothers Mike and Larry Posey of …
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Thursday, August 9, 2012
The Horsham Township Council introduced an ordinance to eliminate the Airport Crash and Noise Overlay District which officials said pertains specifically to planes flying to and from the former Willow Grove air base.
Calling it a logical step following the closure of Willow Grove air base, the Horsham Township Council again put the wheels in motion to amend zoning in the area immediately surrounding the former base’s shuttered runway. The governing body voted 3-0 Wednesday to introduce an ordinance to eliminate the so-called ACNOD, or Airport Crash and Noise Overlay District and to remove development restrictions currently in place. Council members Andrew Santacroce and William Whiteside, who chairs the Horsham Land Reuse Authority and the newly formed Horsham Land Redevelopment Authority, were absent. The governing body had introduced the ordinance in April 2011, prior to the Horsham Land Reuse Authority’s denial last summer of an airport on the bulk …
Thursday, July 19, 2012
The newly created authority – which will oversee the redevelopment of Willow Grove air base – selected its officers, staff.
The name is virtually the same and the faces, for the most part, haven’t changed from the previous Horsham Land Reuse Authority. But, the brand-new Horsham Land Redevelopment Authority – which will eventually replace the nearly 7-year-old planning body formed to review and approve a reuse plan for 862 acres of the former Willow Grove air base – will take the subsequent steps to see that the plan is put into action. The so-called implementation authority held its first meeting Wednesday to select which of the five members appointed last month by the Horsham Township Council would serve in which role. As is the case with the original HLRA, W. William Whiteside, a Horsham Township councilman, will continue to serve as chair and Joanna Furia…
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
The Delaware Valley Historical Aircraft Association is hoping to make improvements that would allow greater public access.
An extended fence line, additional space for its book collection, the establishment of a veterans memorial, relocation of an immobile plane. The nonprofit Delaware Valley Historical Aircraft Association which operates the Wings of Freedom Museum in Horsham, is hoping to get the ok from the federal government to implement four proposals which they hope will make it easier for the public to view the roughly two dozen aircraft and other aviation-related artifacts on display. The Horsham Land Reuse Authority, during its meeting Wednesday afternoon, directed HLRA staff to submit DVHAA’s proposals to the Navy Base Realignment and Closure Program Management Office for review and consideration. HLRA Executive Director Mike McGee said he expects …
Monday, July 9, 2012
The 73,000-square-foot building opened on a portion of the former Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Willow Grove.
Months before 75 percent of Willow Grove air base would close its doors to military operations forever, the federal government was building a $16.5 million home for 715 Army Reservists. The Army Reserve’s 99th Regional Support Command held a ribbon cutting ceremony Saturday for a 73,000-square-foot building on a portion of the roughly 240 acres which comprise the Horsham Air Guard Station. The training facility, which was finished in June 2011, according to a press release on the Defense Video and Imagery Distribution System Web site, will be home to soldiers from a number of various Reserve units under the Army Reserve’s Legal Command, 316th Expeditionary Sustainment Command, 412th Engineer Command, 200th Military Police Command, 3rd …
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