A planned recreational park at Westtown’s Crebilly Farm is facing slower progress than originally expected, writes Bill Rettew for The Daily Local News.
After the township purchased 206 acres of Crebilly Farm last year, West Goshen Township officials estimated that the land could be turned into a public park within eighteen months. But due to zoning issues, limited funding, and a lack of a master plan, the time frame has changed.
Township officials shared the update at a meeting last Tuesday. Over eighty advocates for the Crebilly land, dubbed the “Friends of Crebilly Preserve,” attended the meeting.
Westtown residents have voted in strong favor of the public park project. Prior to the official vote, Toll Brothers proposed plans to build hundreds of homes on the property, which township supervisors quickly shut down.
Another barrier to the development project is the land’s previous status as working farmland. The logistics of clearing the land and finding a team for cutting and planting adds an additional delay.
Outgoing Westtown Board of Supervisors Chairman Dick Pomerantz encouraged meeting attendees to keep up their support. At the meeting, Pomerantz was also honored with a plaque recognizing his two decades of township service.
About the project and the progress so far, Pomerantz said, “We’ve done something nobody thought possible. It’s not just a local story. It’s become a national story that will have changed Westtown for future generations.”
Read more about the Crebilly Farm park project and the project’s developmental delays in The Daily Local News.
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