See below for notes on the Supervisors meeting last week. Many thanks to Linda Callegari for attending and writing this up. Please note that you are encouraged to express your opinions to the Supervisors but there will not be a meeting arranged for us at the entryway. I will write separately with information about the landscaping and signs for the new entryway.
I've also copied a note below from Kathi Mignone about her jewelry business - call her about holiday gifts!
Carol Pfister
gwyneddknoll@gmail.com
215-661-8775
This Holiday Season why not treat yourself and your friends to
a Spooktacular Silpada Silver Party! I would love to show
you my entire .925 sterling silver jewelry box. I am available in
mornings and evenings. View my entire line at www.mysilpada.com/
k.mignone or email me at kandylover1@aol.com. I also have
catalogues available upon request..
Have a sterling day,
Kathi Mignone, independent representative for Silpada
Carol,
Just returned from the Township Supervisor's meeting and thought I'd jot a few notes down to share with neighbors:
- Rep. Kate Harper was there and she provided us with information about the sound barriers & what she could find out from Penndot on very little notice.
- According to Kate, Penndot says that the red walls are made of a special material that is designed to reflect the noise since sound will bounce between the two red walls. The roughness of the red brick is part of this sound abatement and therefore, possibly painting them beige would take away the benefit they now have. Kate will ask Penndot about this.
- The beige walls are not designed to the same specifications as the red walls as they do not need to be as reflective of the sound since there are no walls on the Upper Gwynedd side at that location.
- Kate indicated that the current beige walls will be painted red to match the current red brick walls. Evidently, the contract for the paint and labor was let a year ago so it's already in the pipeline and would be expensive to change the order. A neighbor asked whether Penndot would be painting in the white areas to make it look like the same brick as on the current red walls. Kate will check into this.
- The Township thought that as long as the neighborhood was happy with the beige walls on the inside, we would not care one way or another what the road side looked like. They indicated that it was a decision that the Supervisors, Larry Comunale and Upper Gwynedd made with Penndot. One of our neighbors remembers that Penndot indicated that the road side would be a different color/texture.
- Kate indicated that Penndot estimates that it would cost $55,000 to paint the red brick walls beige. This is just a quick estimate and not a firm quote. Due to budget issues, she does not think they would be willing to spend the money needed to do this.The Supervisors were not sure that Upper Gwynedd would want to paint the walls beige.
- There will be no meeting at the walls with the Supervisors at this point. For those who provided an email at the meeting, the Supervisors will stay in touch with them with the answers that Kate is checking into.
- There were several neighbors present who voiced no problem with the color of the walls. The Township indicated that Upper Gwynedd has not had any complaints from their citizens about the sound barriers at all.
- Kate indicated that we should be glad that we have sound barriers and don't get all upset by the color. She pointed out that sound barriers are very expensive and Penndot is trying to cut down on the use of them wherever they can so we need to be mindful that we are lucky to have them.
- Neither Kate nor the Supervisors knew that the landscape plan from Penndot only provided landscaping & ivy in front of the current beige walls. That the red brick walls will only have ivy planted at the base (street side only).
I'm sorry I could not offer a more positive report. There were about 8 Gwynedd Knoll residents present at the meeting tonight. I don't know if more people would have made a difference in the outcome, but certainly it couldn't have hurt. I encourage you all to send an email to the Supervisors and Kate Harper about how you feel about the sound barriers. They are getting very divergent comments pro and con and so it is not clear in their minds about how we feel. I guess it couldn't get much worse for those of us who hate the red walls.
Linda Callegari
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