Next scheduled Zoning Hearing Board meeting on the Aria issue is Tuesday, February 28, 2012, at 7:00 PM.

It is important that you attend this meeting to show the continuing community opposition to Aria/Frankford's petition to build a hospital complex on this site, "the Pumpkin Patch."

 It is not needed and not wanted.

The Lower Makefield Township Zoning Hearing Board suspended June 21st, Aria hearing. The hearing was suspended until PennDOT evidence requested by RAFR attorney, Ron Smolow, in a supoena issued by the ZHB is produced. PennDOT claimed that it did not have to produce any evidence relating to the Scudder Falls Bridge expansion because it is not in charge of the project. Smolow plans to ask a county judge to order PennDOT to produce the needed documentation. Smolow said that PennDot is responsible for Interstate 95 that runs over the bridge and Route 332, the Newtown Bypass, that runs past the proposed hospital site.

Thank you Ron Smolow!!!

I M P O R T A N T   U P D A T E S . . .

Residents Against Frankford/Aria Relocation (RAFR) January 2011 Update:

Judge Ted Fritsch, of the Bucks County Appeal's Court, ruled in favor of RAFR and Lower Makefield Township reaffirming the validity of our case. He remanded the case back to the LMT Zoning Hearing Board for pertinent traffic information that had been excluded from their decision to approve the Frankford/Aria Hospital relocation.

Attorney Ron Smolow representing RAFR filed and won a lawsuit charging that the ZHB did not fully consider the impact of traffic on the community.

THANKS TO ALL OF THE MANY LMT RESIDENTS WHO SUPPORTED THIS CAUSE!

But the fight is not over! Now we go back to the ZHB for more hearings.

We still need your help!

Frankford/Aria took RAFR to Appeal's Court claiming that our community group did not have standing in the case to appeal the Zoning Hearing Board's decision to grant a special exception to the hospital

The RAFR attorney, Ron Smolow, filed a concise brief which Judge Clyde Waite obviously read very carefully.

Judge Waite ruled in RAFR's favor confirming our standing in this case.

This is a reaffirmation of the correctness of RAFR's cause!

We will continue to fight the Zoning Hearing Board's decision in Appeal's Court as long as it takes.

Judge rules against Aria, says Residents Against Frankford's Relocation can appeal hospital decision (Yardley News, Wednesday, June 09, 2010)

On October 6, three members of the Zoning Hearing Board voted to change our normally strict LMT zoning rules to allow a Special Exception to permit

Frankford/Aria Hospital to move to LMT, thereby VIRTUALLY VOTING TO INCREASE OUR LMT TAXES:

• David Malinowski
• Paul Kim
• Anthony Zamparelli

Two members VOTED TO OPPOSE the Special Exception for the hospital:

• Jerry Gruen
• Paul Bamburak

Mr Gruen also made a heartfelt plea to the Zoning Hearing Board to vote against the unneeded hospital and proposed limiting the future expansion of the hospital at the Shady Brook Farm site.

Mr Malinowski, Mr Kim, and Mr Zamparelli opposed this and VOTED TO ALLOW ADDITIONAL EXPANSION OF THE HOSPITAL EVEN BEFORE IT IS BUILT!!

Click here to read State Representative Steve Santarsiero's letter to the ZHB.

On Oct. 21, the LMT Supervisors, in opposition to the Frankford/Aria Hospital move, voted unanimously (5-0) to APPEAL THE ZONING BOARD’S DECISION IN COURT! 

The Fight Continues!!

On Nov. 2 and Nov. 5, RAFR and LMT filed court appeals against the zoning board's approval of the hospital!

We need your continued support!