Work is ongoing at the Park Place development in Cranberry Township. The builder seeks to make significant changes to the project.

CRANBERRY TWP — Officials with the Park Place development seek to make significant changes to the final phase of the project.

Those changes will be the subject of a public hearing scheduled next month before township supervisors.

The development under construction by Ryan Homes is located on 195 acres north of Rochester Road and east of Powell Road.

It was first approved in 2005, with revised final approval granted in 2012.

An item on the supervisors' Sept. 6 agenda indicates a design revision is being sought by Ryan Homes for Phases 6, 7 and 8 to adjust the type of residential units to be built.

Jordan Holloway, manager of planning and development services for the township, said the proposed changes include replacing planned apartment units with additional town homes.

He explained Phase 6 originally called for single-family homes, and the change would replace four of those homes with nine town homes. Phase 7 would be changed from 57 town homes to 66, and Phase 8 would replace 250 apartment units with 151 town homes.

Overall, the project will see a decrease of 87 units. But according to Holloway, developers indicated the housing market and desire for town homes drove their decision to make the changes.

The public hearing originally was scheduled for July, but was almost immediately continued. Holloway said township officials wanted to make sure changes to the project were discussed with the Park Place homeowners association, which has a majority ownership of the open space.

“We wanted them to confer with the HOA and work out a plan,” he said, adding that small tweaks also are being made stemming from those discussions.

Calls to the HOA's management company were not immediately returned Friday.

Three additional, unrelated public hearings also scheduled Sept. 5 include:

An application for the addition of a cemetery at an existing religious establishment at Hope Lutheran Church, 8070 Rowan Road.

An application for a one-story, 14,900-square-foot building addition to the existing Fresenius Kabi light manufacturing building at 770 Commonwealth Drive, as well as the addition of a 2,000-square-foot utility building.

An application for a vehicle display area consisting of 50 spaces at Ron Lewis Automotive Group, 21191 Route 19.