The Radnor Township Board of Commissioners met on September 29, 2025, at 6:30 PM in the Radnorshire Room. The meeting included public testimony on noise issues, approval of the consent agenda, discussion and tabling of an electric bicycle and scooter ordinance, introduction of a tree ordinance, and approval of several resolutions for capital projects. The board also introduced a new police chief.
Thank you. I want to give notice that we did have an executive session immediately prior to this meeting to discuss legal issues. There are a couple of changes to the agenda, things that are being removed. The police commendations under the presentation sections is not going to happen tonight. We need had some scheduling issues, and we'll bring that at a future meeting. So the other thing that's being removed on the consent agendum is item 2E because that's going to be put out to bid the carpet update. And then I guess that's it. Public participation is first a general public participation. If anybody would like to come and speak, you get five minutes. Thank you. I live in Inverary on Lindsay Circle. Thanks for the opportunity to be heard today. We're back talking about the willows noise issue. And so I'm Robert. My wife Susan's here. You've heard from her several times about this. We've been radna residents for 36 years, very happily. And we've been trying, along with many people standing in front of me and behind me. And we're we're kind of in mid-season of that right now. And to the point where last night I really was looking forward to sitting on my deck and watch some baseball and maybe the end of the football. And the noise was so loud that we had to go inside. So it's it's front and center many, many days. So that's a little background. I'll be brief. I just plan to share a few observations, kind of current observations that I've made and others have. An opinion or two about what the threshold issues are here, what really needs to happen to move this forward. And then I'm going to turn it over to two of my neighbors, Chick and John, to kind of play clean up matters for me. So I've heard and read through conversations with the people that are in this room, some reports that are done on a weekly or twice a month basis, depending on how active the the willows is that some people think that it's gotten better. It's less quiet, it's more under control. A moment in time, it might sound kind of quiet, but maybe they're eating salad, maybe this, maybe that. Um but I believe that it has not gotten better, it's gotten worse. We have 47 events there this year. That's about two times what we had last year. Um more of those 47 in the aggregate have music than they did last year as a percentage. Um it's gotten louder. The crowds somehow have gotten louder. I don't know how that happens, but it has. Um I really think there's a lack of leadership on this issue within the aggregate. I'm not saying it all lays here, but it's a township issue, it's a public nuisance. I'm not empowered to fix it. I can't arrest people and can't go in and pull the plug. Um I believe that someone within your purview, your group, um, needs to pick a leader and lay this issue on their lap and empower them to fix it, because every big issue I've ever been involved with in life and business and real estate and leases, uh, my area of expertise. Um, without a leader, nothing happens. And this has been going on for at least three years. There isn't a leader, nobody has ownership. I think a lot of people might think it's a little radioactive for a lot of reasons that we've talked about, but it's got to get fixed. And without a leader, it won't get fixed. Um I have a friend who's a uh cardiologist. The advice he gives his um his patients is put the fork down, right? That'll get you better fast.