Peters Township offers outlook on 2025 road paving
Peters Township’s engineering director laid out the plans for paving the municipality’s roads this year.
Mark Zemaitis explained to council members at their meeting Monday that more than five miles of township-owned roads are being targeted for resurfacing. According to Zemaitis, 2025 is year two of a three-year plan for treating the roads.
“Basically, what we did was we took the remaining roads, re-rode them, re-ranked them, plotted them on a map, and that’ll give us an idea of the surface condition of the remaining list of roads,” Zemaitis said.
Peters has $2.3 million budgeted for pavement maintenance in 2025.
Also at Monday’s meeting, council unanimously approved a three-year, $19,600 per year contract with New Jersey-based Spatial Data Logic for new geographic information software. GIS is used to maintain property records.
Township Manager Paul Lauer said that for about three decades Peters had used GeoPlan for this purpose.
“That product, which was supported by Gannett Fleming, was sold to a new group, Civic Vanguard. Civic Vanguard is a very small company consisting of three or four people. We have real concerns about their ability to maintain and support that system. It certainly hasn’t been updated in quite some time,” Lauer said.
Lauer added that the township has been considering alternative providers for about a year-and-a-half. Spatial Data Logic will allow for residents and developers to apply for permits online.
“You will no longer have to bring in a physical application to file for a permit. Also, once that permit is issued, it allows residents and builders to be able to see what the status of their permit is, as well as the status of the inspections that are occurring,” Lauer said.