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- This is what you will have to live with! An artist shows you the renderings of our new landscape according to what the Text Amendment changes to our zoning now permit! (Just click on the rendering for an up close look at the buildings and landscape)
- Neighborhood Improvement District – NID
New & IMPORTANT Link! This is EXTREMELY Important information for all citizens. This NID map can be expanded after drawn up meaning new streets/areas added, special assessments put into place – RPL HAS NOW ASSURED THIS WILL NOT HAPPEN. “What you see is what you get?–Maybe, maybe not.” Caution needed. UPDATE: The BOS voted to go forward with the NID and the UMBT Park is included in the NID…due to improper advertising a new vote is being taken. The NIDMA (governing body of the NID) is being established. New information to be posted once final information is available.
- Real Estate Value
- LERTA – Tax break – What it is, how it works and how it came about
- Text Amendment
- Legal Proceedings Update
- What will it be like in our community
Let’s see what communities who have already gone this route NOW have to say.
“It’s just consistent, backed up traffic. If we knew it was going to be like this, I don’t think we would’ve allowed it in the town,” said resident Michael Rooney.
- Learn about our River UPDATED! Read the letter from National Parks Conservation Association about the river and the Del Water Gap, sent to Supervisors and legislators March 14, 2022! Read the letter sent to UMBT Supervisors May 19, 2021 about our Delaware River!
- UMBT Board of Supervisors “We all know how we‘re voting,” said Supervisor Anthony DeFranco as quoted by WFMZ Aug 30, 2020 article on the hearing attended by hundreds of citizens who voiced opposition…….. read the timeline in the link above.
- Letters to the Editor published in various publications
- Lehigh Valley Planning Commission (LVPC) Comments & Position on UMBT
- Northampton County & UMBT
- Environmental Concerns and Info
- News Articles regarding UMBT Citizens & RPL
- News Articles Regarding the Largest Dev on East Coast-CBRE advertising Leasing in UMBT Actual advertisement for available properties in River Pointe Development UMBT ‘largest on Eastern Seaboard’ – clear bldg heights 100 feet plus– click the link above to read it
- Wells, Water & Waste Concerns Do you have a well? Do you have a baseline reading? How much water might the development draw? 300,000 gallons a day dumped on drip irrigation field? Act 537?—the Twp got a 13 pg rejection letter. Click the link for info to date.
- Traffic & Trucks Concerns & Info
- Right To Know Requests citizens submitted to the Twp to try to get their questions answered & the answers (or not) received
- Our Community – Details soon.
- Air Quality – Concerns & Effects
- Light Pollution-Night Sky degradation
- High Cube Cold Storage/warehousing married with food & beverage processing-100 to 125 foot height
- Think Tank! If NOT the Text Amendment & Largest development on the Eastern Seaboard–then what WOULD make sense and would be good for UMBT?! In process.
- History
At the November Supervisors meeting at Thanksgiving Supervisor Anthony DeFranco was asked what he was thankful for and his response was, “We have an opportunity to make history.” Indeed? What is our history and what might now BE history?
- Industrial Development Authority – BASD
- Logistics Sprawl-Neighboring Communities Efforts to Protect Rural Life