Wawa Developer Criticized for Being Unprepared to Answer Newtown Planning Commission Questions

Brett Duffy – a Holland resident – criticized Provco for being unprepared to answer questions about its Wawa Land Development Plan at the April 5, 2022, public meeting of the Newtown Planning Commission (NTPC). Mr. Duffy was among more than a dozen Newton and neighboring township residents who attended the meeting and made public comments. “The developer that wants to build on a parcel of land in your township that you have the power to approve or deny… they don’t know anything about it or they do know it and the answers are not satisfactory,” said Mr. Duffy. “That was my big takeaway.” Indeed, Provco did not provide some critical documents until just a few hours before the meeting and at several points during questioning, Jason Korczak, P.E., Sr. Project Manager for the project, could not answer questions from Commission members. Mr. Duffy also mentioned several other problems he had with Provco’s “testimony” of lack of testimony such as addressing comments of the Bucks County Planning Commission [LINK: https://bit.ly/BCPC-Wawa-Comments]. Provco felt it only needed to respond to township engineers’ response letters. Perhaps because of this lack of response from Provco, the NTPC failed to achieve a consensus to recommend that the Board of Supervisors approve Wawa’s Land Development Plan [LINK: https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/yxSiL9CF5V9hHrTD9]