LifeCycle Abington

About this project

Lifecycle Womancare, a medical office practice, wants to expand its existing medical office building at 1329 Old York Road in Abington. Part of the current three-story building and a stone wall and wooden fence would come down, and two-story additions at the front and rear would add roughly 6,500 square feet of new space.

County planning commission: Supports, with comments

Issues raised: No sidewalk connecting building entrance to Old York Road sidewalk, Insufficient buffering, No shared parking or vehicular access with adjacent uses, Only somewhat consistent with county comprehensive plan

Applicant

Birth Center dba Lifecycle Womancare

Engineer / rep.

Eustace Engineers

Zoning

R-4

Approvals needed

special exception (expansion of nonconforming medical office use), variance: overnight accommodations, variance: fewer than required parking spaces, variance: grade changes and encroachment in tree protection zone, variance: vehicles entering tree protection zone during construction, variance: less than required 15-ft buffer, variance: dumpster enclosure without 3-ft planting area, variance: dumpster enclosure setback

Utilities

public water, public sewer

Demolition

Portion of the existing medical office building, a stone wall, and a 4-foot wooden fence