Stout-Chorley House and Scotch Road-area rezoning plan on agenda
The Hopewell Township Planning Board has set a special meeting for Tuesday, July 8, at 7 p.m., at the Municipal Building (auditorium), 201 Washington Crossing-Pennington Road, Titusville.
The agenda is expected to include a review of a proposed ordinance from the Township Committee — the one that would designate the "Stout Chorley House" as a Historic Landmark.
The house, at 130 Hopewell-Rocky Hill Road and known locally as the Stout-Chorley House, has been recommended for the designation by the township’s Historic Preservation Commission.
This is the house, according to Robin McConaughy, that she and husband, Jon, are renovating into a restaurant. "It should be complete early next year," Ms. McConaughy said recently. The McConaughys are co-owners of Double Brook Farm in Hopewell Township and the Brick Farm Market on East Broad Street in Hopewell.
THE BOARD also plans to continue discussion of a request for a zoning change for land off the western side of Scotch Road, between I-95 to the south and Route 546 to the north.
Sansome Pacific is looking to construct a large mixed-use development. A rezoning of about 200 acres of land would be needed for this development to take place. The rezoning can be accomplished only by the Township Committee, which would confer with the Planning Board on the matter.
In May, Planning Board Chairwoman Karen Murphy said: "Sansome Pacific, one of the current owners of the land, has requested that the Planning Board consider a mixed-use zoning on the west side of Scotch Road that would change the current zoning to allow residential development."