Several dozen residents of Upper Hanover Township attended Tuesday night's meeting of the Board of Supervisors.  On the agenda was a conditional use hearing for single-family homes on the Gravel Pike property where a data center was also planned.

            Back in June, Hanover Development, LP filed an application for a conditional use approval from the township, as well as a substantive validity challenge if the conditional use is not approved.  Hanover wanted to develop the property for data center use.  The plan included a proposed 150,000-square-foot building to be located less than 300 feet behind several homes along Gravel Pike.

            It didn't take long for neighbors and other residents to rise in opposition to the plan.

            Then, at the board of supervisors meeting in August, it was reported that Hanover Development, LP offered a new option for the property: 163 stacked townhouses on the 37-acre tract instead of a data center. 

            Township Solicitor Zach Sivertsen reported that a third party was involved with the data center project, and if the supervisors moved forward with an October hearing, Hanover Development would sell the property to this third party, and the residential option would be off the table.  That option would require a change in zoning from light industrial to R-3, multi-family residential.

            Then, a new plan surfaced to build 60 single-family homes on the property with a conditional use hearing scheduled for Tuesday evening.

            When the time came to present the sketch plan for the single-family homes on the tract, Hanover Properties, LP representative Bob Downs announced that ...