Plans for the Amherst Village Phases 5 through 7 development stalled at Wednesday's Adams Township Planning Commission meeting.

The commission tabled the plans after a resident identified their property as being within the plans, but marked as part of the development.

“I'm wondering what Mr. Kaclik intends to do with my property,” said Ruth Jones, a resident of Jones Lane, of developer Chris Kaclik.

Kaclik walked up the center aisle of the socially distanced meeting space, and sat behind Jones, commencing a quiet conversation that came to an abrupt halt as the board took issue with the new information.

It was revealed that Jones owned a 1¼-acre lot inside the plan that had not been marked. Another resident asked Jones if the home on the lot was vacant.

“I live there,” Jones said.

Commission member Brett Schultz said the developer needed to have further discussion with Jones about their agreement, and the lot needed to be marked on the plan's map.

“You don't control her property, but we've got a land development application that includes her property,” Schultz said.

Kaclik said he would do as the board asked.

Commission chairman Martin McKinney said the commission needs more information about the agreement before moving forward, especially as a number of residents spoke out against the development project at multiple meetings.

“This is a new little wrinkle that we need to make sure that legally what he's asking us to do, we're able to do because of that little island that's in the middle of that segment of the development,” McKinney said.

The township solicitor thanked Jones for bringing the issue to the commission's attention. McKinney said the board had no knowledge of the situation.

“If she hadn't have brought it up, we wouldn't have known,” he said.

Before Jones spoke, the developer appeared in-line with the conditions the commission had called for at a public hearing last month.

Allan Beechey, project manager and senior engineer for Sheffler & Co., presented the changes to the commission, which included less acreage and fewer units than in former plans.

The revised plans included the use of 142 acres instead of 158, and it showed a reduction to 288 single-and multifamily housing units instead of 302.

“You guys wanted to see all the plans updated,” Beechey said. “Since then, we've done that.”

Township engineer Ron Olsen said before the issue with the Jones property that the plans were likely to move forward.

“They met all the conditions and they had a plan that I thought was ready for recommendation for approval by the planning commission,” Olsen said.

Yet the development's meeting of these conditions did little to abate residents' concerns about the impacts of developing Amherst Village further.

Resident Cathy Roach said she felt sorry for Jones.

“To have that woman live in the center of a construction site, I feel her pain,” Roach said.

Resident Tina Wilson voiced her concerns about the development's impact on the existing Amherst Village community.

“I'm concerned about the quality of life of the current residents who live around this,” she said. “I'm really concerned about the property rights of the people who are currently living there with 288 units being developed.”

Also at the meeting, a plan involving a new Shell gas station and convenience store moved forward to the township supervisors' agenda for its Aug. 24 meeting.

The commission recommended preliminary and final approval of plans allowing the Shell site in the Whitetail Meadows development with some conditions.

The board asked that either the developer or the company must complete the necessary stream mitigation and other work established at a previous meeting.

The Shell site is planned along Scharberry Lane and Aster Way south of Route 228, and it is considered a “prototype” location that will involve a 2,400-square-foot store and a 1,000-square-foot car wash.

“We want to make sure that those mitigation efforts get completed before they finish their project,” McKinney said. “All we want to do is make sure that it gets done.”