Politics & Government

Cranberry Township News & Notes

Check out our wrap-up of Thursday's Board of Supervisors meeting.

Cranberry Supervisor Dave Root started off Thursday’s workshop meeting with a moment of silent prayer for Cpl. Dan Hahn, who has serious injuries to his neck and back after from an overpass on Interstate 79 following a high-speed car chase last week that ended in Jackson Township.

Root said Hahn remains in an induced coma at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh’s North Side.

“His condition is still quite serious,” he said.

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Prima Yoga

Supervisors will vote on approving , a hot yoga studio located in the former Elite Dance by Damian studio on Route 19, at their regular meeting on March 3.

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Elite Dance has since moved to a new location on Route 228.

During a public hearing, owners Jamie Malinowski and Jessica Bajouras, who are sisters, told the board the studio will follow the “Hot 26” method, which involves 26 yoga poses and two breathing exercises. The room will be kept at temperatures between 100 and 105 degrees.

“The class is designed for all levels and ages,” Malinowski said.

Frances Bajouras, mother of the two women, has said her daughters hope to open the studio by April 1.

Viola Health Spa

At their next meeting, supervisors also will vote on an 8,500 square-foot health spa within the located at the intersection Rowan Road and Route 19.

The building, which was once was home to the Market House grocery store and the Safari Sam’s family fun facility, now holds an Advance Auto Parts and a McKinney’s Furniture and Mattress Direct.

Ron Henshaw, Cranberry’s director of community development, said the building’s owners, the Viola family, are recruiting a national gym chain for the spa.

Allegheny Plastics

Also on the agenda for approval at next week’s regular meeting are plans to add a 13,940 square-foot addition to the manufacturing facility located on Freedom Road. The company also will add a section of permeable pavement to its parking lot.

Permeable paving is made from porous material that allows rainwater to percolate through the pavement and into the ground instead of draining in sheets off the traditional hard surface and into storm drainage systems.

The township has expressed excitement at seeing this “green” pavement in action.

“The staff thinks this is the perfect location in the parking lot for the employees to try it out,” Henshaw said.

The company also will have to comply with the township’s streetscape ordinance, which means extensive landscaping, including streetlights and sidewalks.

Victory Park

Next week, township supervisors also will vote to give final approval for The development, which is owned by the Victory Family Church on Route 19, will include a 29,510 square-foot Car Sense. Car Sense is Philadelphia-based used-car business that has three locations in that area.

The church also is asking for approval for additions to its facility.

Steven Victor of Victor-Wetzel Associates in Sewickley, the firm representing Victory and Car Sense, said the owners is asking for five waivers, mostly because of the township’s streetscape ordinance.

Car Sense is asking for a break from the amount of landscaping required in areas Victor said are not visible to the public. He also asked for a waiver from the sidewalk requirement, because there is no receiving sidewalk on the Victory Family Church side of the property.

Victor also asked for fewer trees on the property’s interior islands because the trees attract birds.

“Bird droppings are a problem with vehicles,” Victor said.

Shrubs and ornamental grass will replace the trees.


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