Trustees consider starting plan for North Lima area

A neighborhood plan takes a specific area of a community and focuses on ways to improve it.
NORTH LIMA -- Beaver Township trustees are considering hiring an area engineering company to prepare a neighborhood plan for the North Lima area.
Christopher Kogelnik of Herbert, Rowland and Grubic Inc., told trustees Tuesday that his company is looking to draft a plan that would comply with the comprehensive land-use plan the township adopted in 2003.
The company is based in Harrisburg, Pa., but Kogelnik works out of the Hermitage, Pa., branch, where the North Lima plan would be developed. He told trustees he intends to present a preliminary proposal to the township this week. He said that proposal will contain a cost estimate for his company's services, as well as an outline of possible goals and objectives for the project.
"I've lived in Beaver Township a long time, since 1976," Kogelnik said. "I would like to see North Lima have an identity we can be proud of and that would enhance the community."
For the past few years the township has explored the concept of developing a neighborhood plan for North Lima. The purpose of a neighborhood plan is to take a specific area of a community, rather than the community at large, and focus on ways to improve that area.
The township is looking to develop a neighborhood plan that would focus on a 1-mile radius from the center of North Lima, which is marked by the Market Street and South Avenue intersection.