A proposed super Wawa with 12 gas pumps in Wayne has come back to life five years after it was defeated. Now Radnor Township and neighbors are taking the case to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, hoping to get it stopped, writes Caroline O’Halloran for Savvy Main Line.

In June of 2019, Radnor commissioners unanimously rejected a Wawa at the Aberdeen Sunoco and BP car wash off East Lancaster Avenue. They said the plan violated Radnor zoning ordinances.

The Karakelians, owners of the gas station where the Wawa was proposed, appealed the Radnor decision in court and won.

The township and a group of neighbors appealed that ruling to the PA Commonwealth Court.

On Aug. 7, the court ruled that gasoline sales are a legal nonconforming use in Radnor so the township has to approve the Karakelians’ final land development plan for the Wawa if it complies with land use ordinances.

Enter the Pennsylvania Supreme Court as the township, most likely joined by the neighbors, takes its case to them.

“The township will be appealing,” said Solicitor Jim Rice. “No other comment.”

Read more of the history of this legal case over a Wayne super Wawa as it weaves through the courts in Savvy Main Line.