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sometimes “wow” is all that can be said….in east whiteland
Today the other shoe dropped and this happened….
“On behalf of East Whiteland United, a group of landowners and citizens impacted by the Sentinel Green Fig II, LLC’s (“Sentinel”) development of the former Foote Mineral CERCLA Site (“Project”), undersigned counsel is hereby serving this letter to provide to you official notice pursuant to Section 617 of the Pennsylvania Municipalities Code of the group’s intention to sue the East Whiteland Township and the Board of Supervisors (the “Township”) and Sentinel for violations of the Township ordinances and the terms and conditions of the Final Plan Approval granted by the Township for the Project.”
Philadelphia Inquirer: Residents give notice of intent to sue East Whiteland and developer over 1.5 million square foot data center project
by Brooke Schultz Published Oct. 20, 2026, 5:22 p.m. ET
“The township manager declined to comment. The township board chair and a representative for the developer did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment.”
Media inquiries should be directed to:
Silverang, Rosenzweig & Haltzman, LLC
In other related news, the PUC of it all:
meanwhile back at the p.u.c….
hello again east whiteland supervisors
Dear East Whiteland Supervisors,
I figure I will address you this way because well you guys really do not respond to much these days, do you?
I do believe the headline in the Philadelphia Inquirer, said it all the other day:
“Amid data center disputes, East Whiteland hired a PR firm, while its residents hired an attorney.”
Here’s the article link in case you haven’t read it and it didn’t cost the taxpayers $6800:
https://www.inquirer.com/news/pennsylvania/east-whiteland-ceisler-20261015.html
So let’s review: this week you were rude to our State Senator and abysmal towards residents, both local and visiting. Like you called the cops on them and where did that paranoia come from?
Here’s the 411: we live here and we pay taxes and for some stupid reason we voted for each and every one of you. Part of our fundamental rights in this country is the right to public comment, opinion, questioning government, or do you forget about all those little details?
You don’t seem to listen to anyone, even officials in neighboring municipalities do you? I mean it’s not just the residents who are having a hard time with this township is it?
Among the things we saw at this week’s meeting is the tail is wagging the dog. Do you guys even know what goes on in your own township building? Why does your manager talk in circuitous word salads these days?
Here’s a video of the comments:
Peter Fixler, why are you a supervisor? You obviously don’t want to be around residents, so why did you run in the first place? What are you getting out of this? Do you think you’re going to get some further political cherry? With the way you treat residents every meeting? You don’t even follow the meeting rules that you like to lob at people do you? (Note 3 and 4 below.)
Peter, this past meeting there were a couple things that stuck out. First was your comment “That is inappropriate.”
How are you the arbiter of appropriateness? You are literally a jerky boy every meeting. You smirk, you, sneer, you mock, you badger, you lecture, shall I go on?
You attempted to be cheeky with the ladies of General Warren over Bishop Tube when they commented that most everyone wasn’t around when the whole Bishop Tube saga started and you said you were? Well Peter, there’s a difference between being around and being present, isn’t there?
Then Peter, you said when Ginny Kerslake was speaking “Ginny everything you say is half truths.” Ginny only deals in facts, and you essentially called her a liar. Do we want to talk about inappropriate for real?
You all seem to like to paint Ginny as the antichrist, and why? Because she tells the truth?
Scott Lambert, you honestly disappointed me this past meeting.
We will start with your cutting off the public comment. I heard you actually cut someone off who was getting up to compliment you guys on something? Good job.
If you don’t want to take public comment anymore why are you all sitting up there? Not that we want you to step aside Scott because then Jerry Pyne comes into play and that’s a shit show isn’t it? But we need you to lead and not hide behind the solicitor or anyone else and IMHO you know what is going on here is wrong don’t you?
Also wrong? Refusing to let our State Senator Katie Muth speak. and then you made it worse by saying “Katie would you show some respect here?”
And then there was your snarky comment “We are out of the public comment shouting period.”
Facts matter, and at that meeting on Wednesday night, you showed State Senator Katie Muth whom has been very good to this municipality, enormous disrespect. She helps you get things like grants (I mean, I know you probably think it’s because of she of the bad cat eye, your assistant mismanager, but it’s really probably more because of Katie Muth isn’t it?)
You showed Katie Muth disrespect and rudeness that embarrassed your residents. That behavior was not a show of strength. It was a political tactical error and unforgivably rude.
There are so many things I don’t get and you all have such a sense of disconnect from the people who elected you to look out for them, it is quite simply astounding.
This is part of why we want two more supervisors. This is why residents worked to get that question on the ballot, and you’re doing everything you can to stop that, while you should be probably enforcing stop work orders and making sure that the developers over at Foote Mineral are doing things the right way don’t you think?
And then there’s the zoning officer that we heard was was hired to replace the one who was disappeared who didn’t last seemingly long enough to even make it into the township directory and why was that really? Why can’t you get a zoning officer? Have you asked yourselves that question?
And the magical monopole (is that the right term for that giant pole with the electrical stuff coming off of it?) at Foote Mineral? None of you will answer anything about it and why?
So then you hire a PR firm. A PR firm that are as you know damage control specialists and political fixers aren’t they?
So you hired a PR firm at the tune of $6800 a month which is like $81,000+ a year instead of getting a public information officer? How is it you think they’re going to be answering emails and performing duties that somebody that for example isn’t a sworn right to know officer? We don’t want to get our answers from Spin Doctors. That is just as bad as all of your non-answers at present.
You know what I think? My opinion is you hired a PR firm with taxpayer funds to gaslight the taxpayers further. And you actually have the brass balls to say it won’t add another layer between you guys and the residents? Do you really think we’re all that stupid?
I think the main problem with all of you is probably that you expected us all to just be little sheeple. You never expected residents to question anything that was happening. The irony is of course that’s how all of you got into office in the first place so is it power corrupts?
I should be fair to Clint and not really lump him in with everything because he looks like a deer in headlights most meetings. He’s probably regretting that he ever ran for office?
You guys are doubling down on bad decisions in my opinion instead of trying to actually find solutions. You’re committing political suicide, and I don’t know where your moral compasses have gone? Do any of you have a true north anymore?
Anyway, that’s all I’ve got to say. Not that what I say or what anyone else says appears to matter to any of you. Please read the message from the Chair of the West Whiteland Supervisors. That’s what leadership is all about.
Bye for now.
are the great valley democrats and east whiteland republicans against representative democracy?
So the real scandal of the week, other than the continuing circus that is known as East Whiteland Township has to do with Great Valley Democrats who recently at their meetings which they hold inside the East Whiteland Township building, voted against representative democracy, which seems to be like it should be a hallmark of Democrat politics or ideologies, but maybe not here because here it’s about control and if you don’t have control it’s no good?
So I know that, of course Bill Holmes and Jerry Pyne have been beating their big drums and small appendages about this adding two more supervisors issue. Not only do they seem to want data centers, but they have their little fifedom of control as far as the Great Valley Democrats.
Now you can thank politician Michele Vaughn for Bill Holmes. And if someone dug into her, how much time does she put in at her county row job at the Register of Wills? And why is she always trying to get municipalities to use specific engineering firms, etc.? What does she get out of that?  I mean, there are a lot of things about that politician that I still wonder if you really peeled back the layers what would you find?
In full disclosure she was my first exposure to how shady dell acres East Whiteland politics are. That was many moons ago when she didn’t like it that I wrote about Bill Holmes lawn signs and mocked them. She called up the then head of the East Whiteland Republicans, who had no idea who was on voter rolls since we had just moved into the township that recently, and she was all sputtering on the phone with this woman calling me a tea party operative, whatever the heck that was and is that normal?
But all the pieces fit together. Now back to the Great Valley Democrats.
What I’m hearing is, they took some kind of a vote at a meeting? That there was a 6 to 4 vote? So East Whiteland has what five precincts? You multiply those precincts times committee people and you get 10 right?
What’s the story on the six committee people that voted to come out against the ballot measure or question??
And are the committee people that voted to not come out against the measure, are those united pairs of certain precincts?
A friend of mine said today regarding this oddness from both the Democrats and the Republicans and this ballot question the following :
For both organizations, that’s 6 new committee spots….Bigger org? Who doesn’t want that, other than someone who might has well be a potted plant… or dead? Because they aren’t contributing to living. But even a potted plant, absorbs some carbon.
Then there is the question I have for people about the bylaws of the Great Valley Democrats and East Whiteland Republicans. And the question is simple: did they violate their bylaws by taking a stand against democracy and representation? (If somebody has copies of their bylaws and has read through them, please send me the bylaws.)
Now I also know that the chair of the East Whiteland Supervisors Democrat Scott Lambert is against growing the board. And it was reported he pretty much said as much at a recent Great Valley Democrats meeting held in the boardroom of East Whiteland Township.
This poses the question especially with local Democrat and Republican organizations: are they against representative democracy and transparency?
👉🏻Again, this is why if you live in East Whiteland Township please no matter what your political persuasion vote yes to add two more supervisors and add more representation. We need to shake up local government if we’re going to get better local government. And not just in East Whiteland, but in other municipalities as well. 👈🏻
Vote YES, to add two more supervisors to East Whiteland Township under the second class Township code. Our futures depend upon it.
east whiteland residents hire a big time attorney
When Phil Rosenzweig comes calling, municipalities and others really should listen. Just sayin’.
https://eastwhitelandunited.com/news
https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/donation-form/legal-fundraise-for-east-whiteland-united
BREAKING:once again, aqua fails the public – this time over data centers
I don’t know what to make out of this. We learned the news yesterday that there’s a magic will serve letter, but we were almost expecting a magic letter, weren’t we?
If you think Aqua shouldn’t be doing this, you can send emails to the company. You just have to be polite.
Also in case you wish to email East Whiteland, here is a letter I grabbed from Ginny Kerslake to share:
Sample email to send to
slambert@eastwhiteland.org
Pfixler@eastwhiteland.org
Csmith@eastwhiteland.orgDear EWT Supervisors,
The Township did a grave disservice to our community in approving and recording the 2024 Data Center plan, all in violation of our township ordinance section 1 75–24.
This section explicitly requires a will-serve letter from Aqua AND a plan from Aqua of the proposed distributtion system demonstrating that the project will not degrade water service to existing customers.
The township was repeatedly reminded of this by ARRO in their consultant reviews of the Preliminary and Final Land Applications. The Township ignored this and approved the plan despite these deficiencies.
Yesterday the Township announced it is in receipt of a letter from Aqua confirming that the water for the 2024 approved plan will be supplied to Sentinel Green Fig despite AQUA saying in 2024 they could only supply roughly 20% of this.
The Township has not made this letter public. I urge that you do so immediately. At the very least community members should be able to expect transparency.
AQUA email addresses sourced from the Internet, and note that Christopher Franklin CEO lives in Willistown like Charlie Lyddane.
Marc Lucca (president) mlucca@essential.co
Christopher Franklin (CEO) CHFranklin@essential.co
President and Chief Operating Officer richard.fox@essential.co
Nathanial Manchin Director, Municipal Partnerships 512.990.4400 ext. 56125 jnmanchin@aquawater.com
Please show up at the next East Whiteland meeting in person if possible. Bring a friend! Call a reporter!
Next Wednesday! October 14th 6:30 PM (But come Early) East Whiteland Township Building 209 Conestoga Road Malvern, PA 19355
East Whiteland pretty much sucks right now. Oh and in spite of that fakakta document being something the public has a RIGHT to see, there was at least one email from a non- attorney saying basically they had to check with Aqua and the developer to make sure nobody had any objections to this being released and are they freaking kidding me?
So from a knowledgeable friend who read the letter, here is part of their opinion:
So here…
-Aqua has only committed to providing less than 66% of what was requested in 2024?
- it’s less than 66% because the amount requested in 2024 did not include fire suppression
- the required plan from Aqua demonstrating that existing customers will not experience degarded service is still missing isn’t it? This plan is especially important now that Aqua is saying that they can provide three times what they committed to in 2024.
My acerbic , sarcastic takeaway? Well number one, can it now be said the developers not only use new math when it comes to things like height of structures and parking but also power and water? We’re currently in a drought and we’ve experienced a lot of drought situations the past couple of years so if Aqua couldn’t provide the water circa 2024 how is it they magically can supply the water now?
Oh and good ol’ Willistown Charlie? Spewing again on LinkedIn and maybe he needs to get off of his phone?
radnor township wants to ruin downtown wayne
I’m about to share the verbiage on a petition that the Wayne Business Association is circulating on behalf of Wayne business owners, property owners, and Radnor Township residents. If you are in any of these categories, please contact them to sign.
Radnor Township has done some
screwy things in recent past (like the Radnor commissioners and specifically commissioner Jack Larkin threatening a church in Wayne with them eminent domain over parking, and then attempting eminent domain poorly with Valley Forge Military Academy until one of their lawyers came calling at a meeting) but this takes the cake.
Essentially, they want to Lower Merion downtown Wayne (think Schauffele Plaza attempts every few years)
What does this mean? Essentially, they want to take a significant portion of valuable parking and turn it in to a fakakta pocket park. Do they forget about across Route 30 from this and down further east is a pocket park that no one uses now? And it was a little plot of land that former disgusting commissioner Bill Spingler had Radnor purchase. It was turned into a pocket park that no one uses. Also not the only one they don’t use. I will further note that Radnor now does not sufficiently care for all of the parks they own and for example when there’s a problem with a tree most places, do they try to treat it or keep on top of regular pruning? Or is it they just take the trees down?
I don’t know about you, but I think twice about going to downtown Wayne now just like downtown Ardmore and why?
Simple: parking.
This is not what the businesses nor residents need and this is somebody’s vanity project. I don’t know if it’s that stupid commissioner Cathy Agnew or the collective of them.
It’s not just the space they would lose for parking, it’s also common sense like the circulation in and out of these parking lots they want to mess with. I have to wonder if Septa has any thoughts about this not that they’re particularly intelligent these days.
I will note that when I go through Wayne on the way to Penn Medecine, that all the little North Wayne neighborhoods are packed with cars for the train and shopping already.
This is another bad plan for Radnor and it really needs to be stopped. Residents and businesses need to lawyer up. Someone like Phil Rosenzweig or from his firm. I don’t work for the man, but I do know the man and he works for people, not local governments.
📌 Support of WBA Statement| Signature Appreciated
THIS LETTER IS TO BE SENT TO THE RADNOR TOWNSHIP COMMISSIONERS. IT IS FROM THE WAYNE BUSINESS ASSOCIATION(WBA)The WBA requests support from the local business community by providing your name and email on this form.
Dear Commissioners,
The WBA is writing to convey (and reiterate) our thoughts regarding the proposed parklet/public space on North Wayne Ave. After a meeting with commissioners to review the proposed plans / Q&A session; attending the public Board of Commissioners meeting; and subsequent review of the draft Wayne BOD Master Plan, we wanted to memorialize our understanding of the direction going forward.The business owners on North Wayne Ave and the members that have signed the attached support letter are in consensus that the public space should be designed with the flexibility to allow egress to the N Wayne Ave parking lot, and to accommodate parking when the Wayne Commons does not have an event programmed which would require closing off the area to traffic and parking.
As was expressed during public comment, daytime use of this area for ingress/egress and parking is essential to the businesses on North Wayne Ave. and our understanding (after the BOC meeting) is that this will be accommodated in the design. These shop owners have significant investments on the street and are already operating under difficult conditions, maintaining convenience for their customers is extremely important. We do support the beautification and redesign of the space for public events but feel that it will cause more problems than its worth to have this blocked to traffic and parking when not in use with scheduled “formal programming”. We also support the notion that designing and constructing this area to the full scope will be better received by the businesses and community if it is planned with this flexibility in mind.
We are interested in having a role in the planning and discussion of this project and have a voice in its program and execution. The WBA values it relationship with the Township and we look forward to working together to continue to better our beautiful town.
Wayne Business Association📌
You can read about this project in Savvy:
This is a crappy vanity project. It will come at the expense of small businesses, property owners, and residents.
Radnor Township is a Home Rule Charter municipality. When is the last time residents gathered together to find out if they were actually following what they were supposed to be doing? I asked that question because their neighbors in Tredyffrin are also Home Rule Charter and they don’t seem to be doing what they’re supposed to be doing, do they?
Wayne is actually a walkable community and I think they’re about to ruin it. Please support the businesses in Wayne and the residents in North Wayne. This is plain and simple an Emperor’s New Clothes plan.
https://www.avisionforwayne.com/resources#presentations
east whiteland seems ok with recreating louden county virginia more locally?
East Whiteland wants a pat on the back for updating their website where it concerns the data center? Here’s the link but don’t expect a pat on the back from me:
https://www.eastwhiteland.org/news_detail_T2_R315.php
If they want praise, then they can stop the data center, right?
I am quite honestly sick of the municipal soft shoe here, aren’t all of you? This project IMHO will be worse and more destructive that Foote Mineral the EPA superfund site it’s being built on. Note I said in my humble opinion/IMHO.
Also IMHO? They should have said no and could have said no when Charlie the fig wanted a hydrogen hub in West Whiteland way back when right?
Now stockbroker turned developer Charlie is getting pissy on his LinkedIn and seemingly defensive according to this screenshot isn’t he? I ditched LinkedIn as a useless social media appendage a few years ago now, so this was sent to me as it is currently circulating as curious, right?
The eternal puzzle of course is how is there work going on over there at Foote if they don’t have the green light letters from AQUA or PECO? And crushing what exactly and does the township, PA DEP, and EPA give a f😡ck?
Of course what is most amusing about this LinkedIn rant are this dude’s assertions that without his data center we will have no cell phones, no Internet, Netflix, etc etc? Oh ok we’ll wait for the proof that his ever changing project is for all of that right? I mean especially since we have all of these things without his community and environmental killing project now right? And I guess he and big orange are best buddies since he makes a misleading national security statement?
Is he like freaking Moses with the electronic Ten Commandments or what?
Here’s his excellent website this morning FYI:
(Tried several different browsers so far and if he can’t put up a consistent or basic website, East Whiteland wants to trust him with a data center? 🤣)
Here’s the website of the New York crew: https://sentineldatacenters.com/
Note that they are in Louden County Virginia:
So Charlie the fig seems to really want his data center? How’s about putting it in his front yard in Willistown then? What could possibly go wrong?
I will close with a video from Louden County, Virginia…the place East Whiteland didn’t know about when starting the data center journey back when Rich Orlow and Sue Drummond were still supervisors but couldn’t have been bothered checking out before they started down this path to hell, right? And then when was it in the last year or so that they said they spoke to Louden County, Virginia officials and still did not get it? They never physically went to visit did they?
Well here East Whiteland Township, watch this you collective of data center-centric idiots. This is what you are dooming us to:
Oh and read this:
the ballot question in east whiteland township.
This November people in East Whiteland finally have a chance to get real change. There is a ballot question that is simply yes or no to add two more supervisors.
VOTE YES.
Please note East Whiteland or Great Valley whatever they call themselves Republicans are telling people to vote no. the Democrats? They’re not really taking a position, but they have the ballot question on their sample ballot.
What this comes down to is control. And neither party wants to lose control. If East Whiteland gets five total supervisors, people stand a good chance for the first time in years for balance and representation in all matters.
And maybe if East Whiteland get two more supervisors, we can clean house on staff that really shouldn’t be there.
Vote for the government you want, not what the political parties are telling you that you should do. Also, you need to ponder the point that perhaps both parties are for data centers.
Shame on the Republicans here, but can’t say I’m particularly surprised. They are quite limited in their thinking in this area.
