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Fall 2018 MONTGOMERY COUNTY, TidingsTidingsPA Plymouth2040 Comprehensive Plan Open House You’re invited! Please join us this fall for an open house to learn about the vision, goals, and recommendations of the draft Plymouth2040 Comprehensive Plan. You will be able to provide feedback on the draft plan and vote on your priorities for recommended improvements. Your opinion is important in understanding what you want to see happen in your community! Greater Plymouth Community Center Tuesday, December 11th | 5:00 – 8:00 pm 2910 Jolly Road, Plymouth Meeting, PA 19462 Stop by whenever you’re available and stay as long as you’d like! Light refreshments will be provided. Questions or comments about Plymouth2040? Contact Marley Bice, AICP at [email protected] or 610-278-3740 Find us on Facebook! Search for Plymouth2040 and tag us #Plymouth2040 Save the Date Holiday Tree Lighting Veterans’ Ceremony Ceremony Wednesday, November 14 Wednesday, November 28 2:00 pm 6:00 pm Service and Devotion Service and Devotion Monument Monument See Page 4 for details INSIDE THIS ISSUE: Plymouth Township News ..........................................................2-3 Finance & Administration ..............................................................7 Fire Marshall’s Office ....................................................................4 Police News ..................................................................................8 Harmonville Fire Company ...........................................................5 Public Works ............................................................................9-16 Plymouth Ambulance ....................................................................5 Zoning and Planning Office ........................................................17 Plymouth Fire Company ...............................................................6 Parks & Recreation ................................................................18-23 Code RED Emergency Notification ..............................................6 Plymouth Township Directory .....................................................25 Bookmobile ...................................................................................6 Visit us on the web at www.plymouthtownship.org Where you and life meet, is where you’ll find us. Einstein Physicians Plymouth Meeting Family Medicine 4070 Butler Pike, Suite 200 Sissy V. John, MD Dolores R. Tornambe, DO Plymouth Meeting, PA 19462 Jennifer M. McCarthy, MD Tianming Zhou, DO 610-825-5471 Hermine Stein, DO PLYMOUTH MEETING FAMILY MEDICINE Plymouth Township News Calling 9-1-1 from A Cell Phone The Montgomery County Department of Public Safety asks that anyone who calls 9-1-1 from a cellular phone in communities near the County border immediately state that “I’m calling from Montgomery County” when the call- taker answers the phone. If the nearest cell tower to where the call is placed is across the border in a neighboring county, the call will be routed to the 9-1-1 centers in Philadelphia, Bucks, Berks, Chester or Delaware counties, depending on where the tower is located. The neighboring 9-1-1 centers will transfer the call to Montgomery County, but the time it takes to figure out the actual location, transfer the call and then supply the information about the incident again, could make a difference in saving someone’s life. Stating “I’m calling from Montgomery County” at the outset will greatly reduce any delay in getting people the help they need. Cell phone calls to 9-1-1 do not give your address or location, so be sure to give that information as well. Using a landline to call 9-1-1 will result in the call automatically being routed to the proper call center. Special Needs Registry The Montgomery County Public Safety Department, in partnership with Bucks and Chester counties, wants people to sign up for the Special Needs Registry if it would be difficult for them to arrange for their own safety in an emergency. This program is free, voluntary and strictly confidential. It is designed to help those who would have difficulty evacuating during a crisis because of physical or cognitive limitations, language barriers or due to a lack of transportation. Individuals (or their caregivers) are encouraged to register electronically, if possible, by going online to www.specialneedspa.org. Paper registration forms are also available by writing or calling: • Montgomery County, Department of Public Safety, 50 Eagleville Road, Eagleville, PA 19403 • 610-631-6500 Dog Ordinances Pollution Reduction Plan Please remember to pick up after your dog. For years now, we have been talking about the DEP Storm Dog owners are reminded of the following sections of the Water Regulations in our newsletters and on the Township Township’s General Laws: website, explaining how Plymouth is required to implement the six Best Management Practice (BMP) control measures. The Section 4-42. Defecation by dogs – Deemed a nuisance. DEP has recently added another requirement to our minimum Defecation by a dog in the gutter, street, public sidewalk, or other mandates which is the Pollution Reduction Plan. Under this plan, area within the right-of-way line of any public street, or upon the the Township is required to come up with ways to reduce the floor or stairway of any building or place frequented by the public sediment load and nutrient pollution by 10 percent over the next or used in common by tenants, or upon the outside walkways, 10 years in each of our four watersheds: the Plymouth Creek, the driveways, alleys, curbs, or stairways of any building abutting on Diamond Run, the Sawmill Run and the Schuylkill River. The a public street or park, or upon the grounds of any park or public Pollution Reduction Plan includes the following: area, or upon any private property other than the property of the owner of such animal, shall be deemed to be the commission of Plymouth Creek a nuisance. • Colwell and Scarlet Basin retrofit • Harriet Wetherill – streambank Section 4-43. Responsibility of owner to remove. The owner of a dog or the person having custody or control of such dog at Diamond Run the time the animal commits a nuisance by defecating in any area • JFK Park – construction rain garden; streambank other than on the private property of the owner of that animal shall be required to immediately remove the excrement from the Sawmill Run surface of the ground and to dispose thereof either in a toilet or by • Justin Drive – basin retrofit placing the same in a non-leaking container and depositing that • Health Advocate Buildings – basin retrofit container in a trash or litter receptacle. • Township Building – rain garden/streambank Section 4-44. Penalty for failure of owner to • Bell Road Park – streambank remove. The failure of the owner of a dog or of Schuylkill River the person having custody or control of that • Covered under others animal to abate the nuisance described herein as required hereby shall be a summary offense, You can view the full MS-4 Plan for improving water punishable as prescribed in section 1-9 (a fine quality in our streams on the Plymouth Township not to exceed $1,000 per day) of the Plymouth Website. Township Code. 2 Plymouth Township News What’s Important to You in Parks and Recreation? Safe places to walk and bicycle, taking care of our wonderful parks, updating the Greater Plymouth Community Center, more programs and special events for families and active adults, especially in nature and fitness, and conservation of open space and natural resources of our community. These are the important areas in parks and recreation that you would like Plymouth Township to focus on over the next ten years to make our community even better. Overall, we have been hearing from you about how important parks, recreation, trails, and open space are to our quality of life. The Greater Plymouth Community Center is the hub of our community, where people come for fun, health, fitness and connecting with friends, both new and old. We have also identified other exciting parks and recreation opportunities to consider such as riverfront access and adding new types of facilities in the parks to serve people of all ages and abilities. In coordination with the Township’s Comprehensive Plan, we are looking at current riverfront industrial uses and how we might improve river access for recreation and trail connections for our community to safely walk and cycle to other regional trail connections in the future. Challenges that you have identified include: traffic in the Township; insufficient parking in the parks; the lack of connectivity, preventing our residents from safely walking and bicycling to community destinations; updating our community center, that looks great, but is aging from extremely high use; and continuing to ensure our community is a welcoming and diverse place to live, work, and play. We are hearing you loud and clear! We’re working to make sure that we address the things you care about most in the Plymouth Township Parks, Recreation and Open Space Plan Update now underway, as well as updating our programs and services to meet evolving needs and interests of the age in which we live. A draft of the Parks, Recreation and Open Space Plan Update will be available for public review in the fall. Please watch our website to see when it is available so that you can review and comment on it. There will be a public meeting about the plan – so watch our website for the meeting date. What you have to say matters – our plans are always rooted in public