Mahoning Township will hold a workshop to discuss proposed warehouse and RV ordinances at 4 p.m. May 7.

The board has tabled the possible adoption of a warehouse ordinance on several occasions.

Board Chairman Robert Slaw previously said the ordinance didn’t have a solar-ready roof.

However, township solicitor Tom Nanovic said he wasn’t sure the board could do that.

Supervisor Ronald Wenrich said that structures should be sturdy enough so they can put solar on it.

But Nanovic questioned why the board was making only warehouses do it.

The board planned to reach out to Carson Helfrich, land use planner, to see if he had any warehouse regulations.

Helfrich previously assisted Mahoning, Franklin Township and Lehighton borough with updating their subdivision and land development ordinances and their zoning ordinances.

Save Carbon County has asked supervisors to take a close look at township zoning, and to consider a model ordinance.

Linda Christman, president of Save Carbon County, told the board there are several truck terminals in a 2-mile stretch along Route 940 in Kidder Township. Several more have been proposed.

Christman said truck terminals could have their sites on Mahoning Township in light of the improvements made along Route 443, along with its proximity to the Pennsylvania Turnpike.

There has been push back on a 420,000-square-foot warehouse project in Kidder Township some 30 miles away.

In August, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection officials heard concerns from local residents, lawyers and environmental activists.

All of the concerns expressed at that hearing in Kidder urged the agency to deny a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit for the proposed warehouse project.

That project is planned by Blue Ridge Real Estate Inc. along Route 903. The permit would allow the discharge of pollutants from construction activities into a nearby tributary of Black Creek, a high-quality waterway home to migratory birds.

The township is also considering regulations that would govern the parking and use of recreational vehicles.

Based on the sample RV ordinance under consideration:

• A large vehicle may be stored, unoccupied, upon private property including but not limited to storage on

private roads owned by or leased to the owner of such large vehicle.

• All stored large vehicles must be located on the side or rear of the property on a crushed stone, black top or concrete surface capable of supporting the vehicle.

• All parking areas and access roads or areas that are created or expanded after the possible adoption of this ordinance would have to be constructed of a hard, homogeneous, all-weather surface such as cement or asphalt or equivalent.

• Would have to be graded to provide convenient vehicular access and proper drainage.

• Would have to be maintained in good and usable condition.

• All existing parking areas and access roads or areas would have to be constructed and maintained with an aggregate base, cement or asphalt all-weather surface.

The parking of large vehicles on any surface or the accessing of parking areas across any surface that is not constructed in accordance with these regulations would be strictly prohibited.

• It would be unlawful for any recreational vehicle to be occupied for living purposes within the township, whether located on a public street, public property or private property.