ADAMS TWP — The township will hold two separate public hearings on Feb. 23, to allow residents input on two potential new township ordinances.

The first would add an amendment to the township’s zoning ordinance to include definitions for sports arenas and convention centers and make them conditional use entities in both the industrial and Route 228 overlay zoning districts. The potential ordinance was first brought before residents in November.

The second would permit townhomes as conditional use entities in the entire Route 228 overlay zoning district.

“Right now, there are certain restrictions on size, et cetera. This is setting some new ones and allowing them in the entire overlay,” said township manager Mike Tylka at a township supervisors meeting Monday, Jan. 12. “Right now, they’re only allowed in some of the underlying (districts) under certain standards.”

Currently, townhomes are a permitted use in the R-3, or residential multifamily, and RAM, or residential agricultural moderate-density, districts.

The proposed townhome ordinance would also include restrictions and regulations on location, buffering and townhome density.

According to Tylka, the proposed arena and convention center ordinance has undergone a slight change since it was first brought before the public in November. The new version of the ordinance would no longer propose making an “indoor/outdoor recreational complex” a permitted use in the personal services overlay district.

“The planning commission advanced a document that does not include them in personal services,” Tylka said. “Only the 228 overlay and the industrial district.”