PA. DEVELOPMENT Officials approve plans to build

The city approved final plans for a Sample Road $410,000 sewer project.
By HAROLD GWIN
VINDICATOR SHARON BUREAU
HERMITAGE, Pa. -- City commissioners have given final approval to a couple of land development plans that will allow construction of a church and a beauty salon.
St. John the Baptist Carpo-Russian Orthodox Church plans to leave its Sharon location and build a new church on land it owns on the southeast corner of Pa. Route 18 and Morefield Road.
Plans call for an assembly hall and a fellowship hall with a total combined space of 12,000 square feet.
The Touch of Class Styling Salon wants to convert a 1,107-square-foot house at 2770 E. State St. from a residence into a new salon. Plans call for a 600-square-foot addition to the structure.
The commissioners also approved property subdivisions to clear the way for a new Eckerd Drugs store at the southeast corner of North Hermitage and Lamor roads.
Orion Development of Weirton, W.Va., is building the project and needed to combine three properties into a single building lot of about three acres for the new store.
Also on agenda
In other business, the commissioners gave final approval to the construction of a $410,000 sanitary sewer project along Sample Road, a project that will require property owners there to contribute $25 per front foot (up to a maximum of 200 feet or $5,000) to help finance the work.
About 40 property owners are affected, and assessment notices will be sent to them Monday, giving them 90 days to pay the assessment in full or make arrangements to pay it over five years at 4.2 percent interest.
Sewer connection or tap-in notices will be sent out Dec. 1. Tap-in fees are $1,000.
City Manager Gary Hinkson said those fees are normally also due within 90 days, but city commissioners have agreed to extend that period to 180 days at the request of some Sample Road residents, who noted that it might be difficult to complete tap-ins during the upcoming winter weather.
Homeowners also will be responsible for installing individual sewer lines from their homes to the new city line.