Despite receiving a recent negative ruling on its plan to open a quarry in New Hanover, a Bucks County concrete business will get another opportunity to convince township officials of the compliance of its proposal.

            The Silvi Group submitted its fourth revised final plan application for Gibraltar Rock to municipal officials on Dec. 1. The new proposal will be discussed by the township's planning commission and the board of supervisors in February.

            Both bodies could take action on the plan, recently rejected by the township's planning commission, during their meetings, scheduled for Feb. 10 and Feb. 22, respectively. Both will be held at the township building, located at 2943 N. Charlotte St., and will begin at 6:30 p.m., according to a Dec. 2 letter from township Manager Jamie Gwynn to Stephen Harris, the attorney representing the applicant.

            In October, the township's planning commission voted not to support a separate proposal from the Silvi Group to open a quarry in the area of Church Road, Route 663 and Route 73. Near the end of the four-hour, 20-minute meeting, the five-person body unanimously approved a motion recommending that the township's board of supervisors reject final plan approval of the Silvi Group's most recent application, which had been preliminarily approved.

            Sue Smith, the committee chair, expressed discomfort with asking the supervisors to approve the applicant's proposal to mine two parcels south of Hoffmansville Road.

"It's not up to snuff," Smith said prior to the vote.

            Vice Chairman Linda Swagzdis said she did not believe the issues related to the required permits were properly addressed.

            "There are too many incomplete facets," said Swagzdis, whose term ends at the end of 2020. "This is not a clean plan."

            The current revision – the applicant's third since receiving preliminary plan approval in 2015 – does not meet the requirements detailed in the preliminary plan resolution, according to Gwynn.

            The plan before the planning commission was the third revision following the preliminary plan resolution secured by the applicant in 2015, according to the manager. In September, Harris submitted a revised version of a 2015 plan that had already received preliminary plan approval.

            Supervisors Doug Muller, Phil Agliano and Andrew Kelly voted in June of that year to approve the resolution, which allowed the mining of 163 acres south of Hoffmansville Road, and permitted the plan to move forward. Brown and Ralph Fluharty voted against the resolution, which forces the Silvi Group to comply with a number of conditions identified by township consultants before the board can consider final plan approval.