The former Rite Aid pharmacy building at 2 Kirby Ave. has a new tenant.
The DOLGENCORP LLC, headquartered in Goodlettsvillle, Tennnessee, parent company of Dollar General stores, recently signed a 10 year lease for the property owned by SADG-4 of Dickson City.
A spokesperson for Dollar General’s media relations division said in response to an email inquiry that the company at this time could not give a date for the opening of a new store at the Kirby Avenue location. The spokesman stated in an email that the company is in “a final due diligence phase for a new store.”
The spokesperson also stated in an email that it does not have any current plans to close its store at 364 S. Mountain Blvd. which opened in 2013.
Nuangola weighs zoning ordinances
Nuangola Borough council will have a lot on its plate when it meets Tuesday at 7 p.m. when it will hold public hearings on three amendments to its zoning ordinance.
Council will hear public input on an amendment to its zoning ordinance regulating short-term rentals in the borough. The amendment limits short-term rentals to three percent of residential properties in each zoning district and requires permits and conditional use approval in R-1, R-2 and B-1 zoning districts. The ordinance defines a short-term rental as renting a single-family dwelling unit for less than 30 consecutive days.
Also on the agenda is an ordinance regulating data centers.
Finally, a public hearing will be held on an amendment to the zoning ordinance which states that “no resident and/or property owner shall be eligible for a zoning permit, building permit, etc., if they are considered delinquent in paying refuse, garbage fees, and/or have an outstanding enforcement action and/or judgment (without an appeal).”
Council is set to vote on those amendments at its Dec. 11 meeting.
Hearing resuming in Dorrance Twp.
Dorrance Twp. zoning hearing board will resume a hearing on Nov. 13 at 6 p.m. to decide if the township’s zoning ordinance in effect prior to adoption of an amendment last month unlawfully excluded data centers.
Brewster Land Company, LLC, submitted an application to the zoning hearing board on Aug. 19 asserting a “substantive validity challenge” to the township’s zoning ordinance on the basis that the ordinance, prior to being amended on Sept. 22, “unlawfully excludes data center uses as legitimate land uses under Pennsylvania law.” The company has not yet submitted to the township an actual application to build the data center, only the substantive validity challenge.
After three hours of testimony on Oct. 1, the zoning hearing board continued the hearing to Nov. 13.
