Planning Board Conditionally Approves High School Plans (Updated)

Updated 2010-09-28 23:54 with more details, thanks to the audio recording of the meeting provided by LeboCitizens.com.

Tonight, the Mt. Lebanon Planning Board voted unanimously to approve (preliminarily) the school district’s plans for the high school project. The approval, however, was subject to the following conditions:

1. The school district must obtain a favorable resolution about parking spaces in its zoning appeal (the plans have only 505 of the required 528 spaces).
2. The school district must comply with the municipal engineer’s review comments.
3. The school district must comply with the traffic engineer’s review comments.
4. The school district must obtain from the Mt. Lebanon Commission approval of a conditional-use application for the high school being on a property zoned R-1.
5. The school district must obtain a modification or waiver from the Mt. Lebanon Commission to allow the use of plants not on the land-development code’s required plant list.
6. The school district must properly treat and test its permeable pavement and report annually to Mt. Lebanon about the same.

Most of the conditions seem easy enough for the school district to satisfy. That first condition, though, is something the school district has less control over. Who knows how the court case will be decided?

But one thing is certain: if the school district’s zoning appeal fails in the Court of Common Pleas, the plans for the high school are going to need some rethinking.