Forget the Battle of the Brandywine. Out in Concord Township, the Battle of Beaver Valley looms.
This one pits a group of local residents opposed to a development proposed for one of the few remaining open tracts, about 170 acres known as the Beaver Valley. It's being targeted for a development with a mix of residential and commercial uses.
Opponents have organized. They set up a Facebook page. They developed a website, www.savethevalley.org that lays out the case against the development that includes videos that have 10,000 views, and they've started a petition that already has gathered 5,000 signatures.
This will all come to a head Tuesday night when a public hearing on the development will take place in the Garnet Valley Middle School auditorium at 7 p.m. It promises to be a barn-burner.
The developers envision 200,000 square feet of commercial space along with a total of 432 houses and townhouses. There are three basic things being proposed: the commercial development called Concord Commons, an age-restriced community dubbed The Mews at Concord and another residential development tagged The Preserve at Concord.
Supervisors out in Concord are already getting an earful from those opposed to the development. They in turn indicate what is being proposed might be more to residents' liking than what could possibly go in the site under the current zoning, which could accommodate both residential and commercial development.
We'll have a full story advancing the big meeting tomorrow.
In the meantime, this has the possibility of being one of the biggest issues to hit the western end of the county in years.
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