The Douglass Township board of supervisors voted Tuesday to deny a proposal by a shareholder in the Bally school bus company seeking permission to consolidate part of its vehicles in the municipality.

        Unresolved concerns over potential traffic issues played a significant role in their decision to vote unanimously against a land development plan filed by Brian Quigley for a proposed bus depot at 290 Middlecreek Road.

        During a zoning hearing on the proposal in 2012, 12 of 13 people expressed their opposition to the project based on traffic concerns, according to Solicitor Paul Bauer.

        The zoning hearing board's decision included a requirement that the developer complete "a traffic study/road capacity analysis study," according to the township's planning agency meeting minutes from Feb. 9, 2012.

        That ruling also required Quigley, whose business supplies buses for the Boyertown Area and Oley Valley school districts, to submit a comprehensive traffic study of 14 intersections surrounding the property located at the intersections of Middle Creek, Swamp Creek and Schlegel roads, to township officials and its contracted engineering firm by Monday, Sept. 28.

        The applicant never presented a study to support claims by his traffic engineer that the proposal would have no impact on the nearby intersections, according to township engineer Josh Hagadorn.

        According to Bauer, Quigley never met any of those requirements despite numerous deadline extensions over three years.

        The elected officials also voted unanimously to reject a 30-day extension on the project. According to Hagadorn, Quigley, the manager and part owner of Quigley Bus Service, Inc., also requested a staff meeting with municipal officials to discuss traffic issues.

        The applicant has 30 days to appeal the board decision, according to Bauer. He said Quigley can file an appeal with the Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas.

        Quigley, who appeared at the meeting, asked the supervisors for a meeting in order "to get on the same page" regarding the traffic issues. The township's planning agency recently recommended a 30-day extension.

        However, the solicitor argued that municipal officials have granted the applicant numerous extensions.

        "I don't believe the planning agency is aware of Mr. Quigley's lack of progress," Bauer said during the meeting.

        After the meeting, the solicitor said he didn't believe the applicant ever acted in good faith with municipal officials.

        Following a 22-minute executive session, the supervisors voted to reject the plan. Fred Ziegler made the motion.

        "I've been involved with this project for several years," he said prior to the vote. "People who live in that part of the township don't want it."

        The vote means that Quigley's proposal returns to "square one," according to supervisors Chairman Anthony Kuklinski.

        He said after the public meeting that any future plans to build the bus depot would require the submission of a new land development plan. The applicant would also be required to return to the township's zoning hearing board.

        In June of 2012, Quigley submitted a plan to township officials to build a bus depot and an office building on the 27.79-acre lot, according to township Manager Pete Hiryak.

        In 2012, the board granted the applicant a special use variance since the creation of school bus storage is not permitted by the property's current zoning, according to Hiryak.

        The family-run business wanted to store all of the buses utilized in the Boyertown school district at the property, according to Quigley's attorney Judith P. Rodden.

        The property would accommodate parking for 134 buses and 64 vans, as well as 234 parking spaces for drivers, aides and visitors, according to the zoning hearing board's decision issued June 15, 2012.

        The decision includes a 20-year plan for expansion at the property based on future development in the district, according to Rodden, who did not attend Tuesday's meeting.