Lower Southampton to consider apartment complex on Brownsville Road. Here’s the plan.
Feasterville residents will soon have another chance to voice their opinions about a proposed apartment complex to be built at 1834 Brownsville Road.
Federation Housing, Inc., is planning to build a three-story, L-shaped complex. The complex will be for seniors 62 and older who meet income requirements determined by the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency.
The Lower Southampton Township Board of Supervisors will meet at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 24, at the Lower Southampton Township Administrative Building, 1500 Desire Avenue in Feasterville, to consider Federation Housing's proposed amendment to the conditional use resolution.
Federation Housing wants to amend the resolution to reduce the total number of available apartments units from 72 to 52.
It would be a mixed-use development, with 20% of the space earmarked for retail or business.
In 2020, Lower Southampton supervisors approved the conditional use application by the developer to build the apartments on nearly two acres of land on Brownsville Road.
Lower Southampton Township Manager Joe Galdo was unavailable for comment Monday.
Lower Southampton residents, however, took to social media to raise concerns.
Residents voiced some of those concerns In a post in the Feasterville residents' group on Facebook, addressing the density and impacts of the project.
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A group member wondered how safe such a development would be for the underlying sewer infrastructure.
"A pertinent question would be, 'Will the current sewer system be able to handle the increased influx of sewage?'" the poster wrote. "If not, what upgrade is required, what's the cost, and who will absorb that cost?"
According to its website, Federation Housing operated several senior-living complexes: nine in northeast Philadelphia; two in Montgomery County; and one in Bucks County.
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Florence E. Green House, at 4701 Somerton Road in Trevose, is a Federation Housing-owned 60-unit, three- story building with one and two-bedroom apartments.
On average, the age of Federation Housing residents is 78, and a majority of residents are at or near the federal poverty line.
This article originally appeared on Bucks County Courier Times: New apartments coming to Lower Southampton?
