Robert Reynolds
For Maxatawny Township Supervisor
VOTE MAY 20th 2025
Rob Reynolds
Twenty years ago, I settled in Maxatawny to restore the Hottenstein mansion and teach American history. Setting up the township historic commission and chairing the planning commission, has taught me a lot about the current and future needs of the township.
Residents face a record high school tax ballot measure that is alarming and must lead the township to take notice and engage in long range planning, to achieve better long range financial success. I am a Republican candidate for Supervisor, who will create and implement a clear long range vision and plan, captured in a comprehensive plan, to meet the current and future needs of our community.
The Future
New Comprehensive Plan for Maxatawny
For the first time, the municipalities in the Kutztown School District are working together on a joint comprehensive plan. The current Maxatawny plan is beyond outdated and was written before solar farms and mega-warehousing existed. By working together as the communities within our school district, I believe we can achieve financial stability with coordinated growth that does not threaten our rural way of life and protect our future.
Are Mega Warehouses the Answer?
Mega-warehouse projects deliver tax dollars to municipalities, but they have impacts that are paid for by taxpayers and residents that grow in cost over time. Across dozens of conditional use warehouse hearings in the past few years, I have learned that it is impossible for such enormous projects to contain their impacts within the properties they are developing.
The initial benefits of increased property taxes from large development projects need to be weighed against the true cost of hosting such projects. Large warehouses will add thousands of tractor trailer truck trips per week using many Maxatawny roads. There is no workable method for Maxatawny to keep tractor trailers off the sharp curved, narrow and hilly back roads that serve as shortcuts between I-78 and 222 even though it is illegal for these trucks to use these shortcuts.
Maxatawny Experience
After a nearby landmark stone farmhouse was demolished in 2012, I got involved in Maxatawny. I founded the Maxatawny Historic Commission and developed a process that allows for photos to be taken before demolition occurs of historic buildings. I joined the Planning Commission in 2021 at the same time the township faced some of the largest development proposals in our history. Our outdated comprehensive plan and ordinances were not written to manage large warehouse projects or large solar farms, and newer forms of development, leaving Maxatawny vulnerable. The most impactful ordinances for warehousing, solar farms, and landscaping are now being updated.
Experience and Family
I worked as a carpenter for the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the National Park Service, married, moved to Vermont to study Historic Preservation, worked in Bucks County as an architectural historian and attended Lehigh University, before moving to Maxatawny. Our daughter was fully educated in the Kutztown public schools and will soon become an elementary school teacher, while my wife works as a Kutztown school bus driver.
Moving Forward
To Protect our Future, please,
Republicans VOTE for Robert Reynolds on May 20th
Democrats WRITE-IN Robert Reynolds on May 20th
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PO Box 47, Kutztown, PA 19530
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