The process to implement improved stormwater infrastructure along Route 63 near the site of a proposed Dollar General Store in Marlborough Township is underway. The township's board of supervisors granted conditional approval to submit a highway occupancy permit to the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation during its public meeting Aug. 9.

            A proposed management agreement would require the property owner to maintain and replace any new stormwater systems if needed, according to township Solicitor Mark Cappuccio. He said the owner would be required to provide a $4,200 to the municipality, approximately 10 percent of the proposed improvements, which it would use in case the property owner fails to maintain the improvements.

            The conditional approval requires that a representative from Dollar General and the current property owner approve the agreement before the township submits the application to the state agency.

            A representative of Dollar General attended the meeting. However, CCD Investors – the current property owner – was not represented, according to township Manager Eleanor Sadorf. Cappuccio said during the meeting that he didn't want township officials to sign the agreement until the current owner signs off.

            One year ago, Carl Bardman – the principal of CCD Investors, which has a mailing address of P.O. Box 667 in Green Lane – announced that his group has an agreement of sale with Dollar General for the parcel, which had been used as the athletic fields for the elementary school.

            In August 2016, Bardman said he initially purchased the property from the Upper Perkiomen School District in the early 1990s. He also sold four or five acres to the day care center.

            The township resident then sold the entire parcel to Macintosh Homes, but bought it back when the developer could not meet its mortgage requirements during the recession.

            CCD Investors purchased the property – with an address listed as 0 Main Street – from Macintosh Homes on Dec. 2, 2008 for $1, according to the same information.

            Dollar General hopes to construct a 9,000-foot store on a 20-acre parcel near the intersection of Route 63 and Upper Ridge Road. The project remains in the preliminary stages of the land development, according to Sadorf. She explained after the meeting that Bardman's organization is looking to subdivide the property and maintain a portion.