No one goes to those Meetings !

NOW this "Coalition" is going to meetings? NOW your all upset...you all could've goin to the meetings in the beginning (months ago) to express your feelings. NOW your all whinning for the township to do something.

The mobile home park is allowed on that site per zoning regs....If you are going to fight developer...you should look into setting up legal structure for your coalition in order to minimize your own personal legal and financial exposure.

Well done County Builders! Now you have the board and the residents begging you to do what you wanted to do in the first place. Bullies win, as always. Nice lesson in manipulation and douchebaggery.

Funny, I am willing to bet that the majority of the people in these communities vote Democrat, and "believe" in the social engineering goals of that party, that is until it happens in their backyard!

There are actually democrats in Newtown. Have yet to meet one.

If the majority is not Dems then they vote like them - bleeding heart, pinko, Leftists. They think their progressive agendas are just terrific; equal housing, entitlement spending, green energy, abortion rights, etc. But let someone introduce a plan for modular homes, hospital &/or rehab center, windmill farms, abortion clinics; they sing the ol' song - "I really didn't mean it to be in my back yard. Can't you put it elsewhere? I live in Newwwwwtoown."

BTW, the "extensive network" of communities have plenty of their on trash. The only things missing are the pink flamingo lawn ornament, propane tank and the Ford F-150 pick-up truck up on blocks! That's right, they found their Shangralah and want the gates closed behind them.

I hope the developer follows through with the project just so the three blind mice (supervisors who voted against the town homes) realize they have a responsibility to treat people with a little respect. This whole mess could have been avoided. In a post last week Ciervo was suggesting we hire lawyers and form a coalition to fight the trailer park. The ironic thing is that we all pulled our money (called taxes) and hired people to represent our interests ( called supervisors) and fight our battles. Now we have to form a "coalition" to do what the supervisors should have done correctly the first time.

I find it interesting that this Coalition is wants to tell someone else how to legally USE their own land because they don't like how they are using it.
Heads up, Newtown isn't the end all, be all.

You don't get to control everything just 'cause you have a 18940 zip code.

This whole thing smells of "we don't want poor people nearby"

This is so entertaining. There are going to be townhouses on that property eventually. I am just gonna sit back and continue to watch the entertainment.

I don't know why some posters hate Newtown and the people who live in Newtown so much. Most of the people in Newtown live in modest townhomes or small single family homes!

I ain't two sure why youze people is upsett. My new Newtown double-wide is gonna look reel nice next to doze udder houses their. I promise not two park my pickup on the lawn or the street unles my tires be flat...yippee freakin' kiyay! Newtown, here we come!

You people are unreal, living in your own diluted sense of reality. Just because you live in newtown does not make you any better then anyone else. Modular home communities do not bring trash, or low income housing. When the community is run right, with a strict set of rules you actually get hard working people, that want a place of thier own.
These million dollar homes are just a status symbol and I would bet that more then 50% of the residents in those homes are champagne taste on beer pockets ! Just ask yourself this one question, does not everyone deserve the right to be a homeowner ??

The root cause of this issue is that the former Roberts Nursery was rezoned for higher density. The precedent has been set. So I guess the question is for future development, is this the pattern set for the rest of the township...do you want the zoning to be rewritten for every applicant?

Don't know why all the zoning concessions have everybody up in arms. It's a pattern that's been repeated over and over again since Newtown has grown from a sleepy historic small town to the cookie cutter sprawl seen everywhere. We've lost the uniqueness long ago. At least we still have the boro.

Restore integrity to the process.

This has nothing to do with political affiliations- what a ridiculous perspective. The individuals who live within the vicinity of the site in question are simply acting to protect the value of their investments, which they have every right to do since the BOS initially did not. The proposed mobile home park is entirely out of character with the other developments in that area and would have a negative impact on property value; there is no getting around that fact and it is exactly why the builder used it as a "threat" against the board. So, for all of you who keep trying to disparage against the coalition, perhaps you should look at the builder who intentionally picked a mobile home park as a device to incite this type of reaction from the community. He is fully aware that a mobile home park does not conform to the neighborhood and would have a negative impact on property value and that is precisely why he is using it as a method of intimidation.

And the BLUFF goes rolling and gathering more comments to the builders satisfaction !