Parking Lot

An armed robber was believed to have victimized four Camden County women in separate incidents over the weekend, Lawnside police said. All four incidents happened in the parking lot of the Pathmark food store on the White Horse Pike. The first one began at 7:10 p.m. Friday. The victim, of Lindenwold, was returning to her car when she said a man approached her and demanded money. He had a blue windbreaker draped over his arms "as if to have a concealed weapon," police said.

The Whitpain Zoning Hearing Board has approved a proposal by Hansen Properties that will alleviate a parking shortage at a new two-story office building and help a tiny church provide parking for its parishioners. Hansen plans to build a 43-space lot on land owned by the Union Meeting Orthodox Presbyterian Church. The church is next door to the office building that Hansen is constructing in the Union Meeting office complex at Harvest Drive and Union Meeting Road. Unisys Corp.

A candidate for Media Borough Council has questioned the borough's acquisition of a private parking lot for $117,000 last year. John Stubbs raised the issue of the acquisition of the lot, at State Street and Galey Street, at the council's Thursday night meeting. Councilman Robert Gioggia said that the site offered the only possibility of increasing the number of parking spaces in the borough's commercial district without tearing down buildings. Mayor Frank Daly said in an interview that the borough purchased the lot in June as part of the council's attempt to improve Media's chronic parking problems.

A plan to turn portions of two Paoli properties into a parking lot is unfair to the property owners and a waste of public funds, the owners told the Tredyffrin Township supervisors at their meeting Monday. Township officials said that the plan was proper but that the owners could challenge it in court once condemnation proceedings began. Meanwhile, said board Chairman Paul Olson, "the Paoli area is desperate" for parking. The proposal to condemn the rear portions of two lots on South Valley Road, south of Lancaster Avenue, cannot solve Paoli's parking problems, according to one of the owners, attorney William L. McLaughlin Sr. The properties in question are the rear lots of McLaughlin's home and law office at 23 S. Valley Rd. and of a neighboring apartment building.

A plan to turn portions of two Paoli properties into a parking lot is unfair to the property owners and a waste of public funds, the owners told the Tredyffrin Township supervisors at their meeting Monday. Township officials said the plan is proper, but that the owners can challenge it in court once condemnation proceedings begin. Meanwhile, said board Chairman Paul Olson, "the Paoli area is desperate" for parking. The proposal to condemn the rear portions of two lots on South Valley Road, south of Lancaster Avenue, cannot solve Paoli's parking problems, according to one of the owners, attorney William L. McLaughlin Sr. "Are you saying, Mr. McLaughlin, that there is no parking problem in Paoli?"

There's a certain romance to Jeff Dobkin's concept: Older guy, entrepreneur - with guts - toughs it out on a parking lot with a new idea. In a very public way. Because, at age 63, with four marketing books and a handful of inventions on his resumé, there still had to be time for one more great idea, for one more chance to launch something big, and maybe most important for Dobkin, one more time to avoid life's could-have, should-have regrets....

Yardley Planning Commission members discussed plans to consolidate three small parking lots in the Main Street shopping area into one larger lot. The discussion was prompted by a request by Dr. Vikram Kaji to expand the lot at his building on the west side of Main Street from nine to 19 spaces, a request that was postponed pending a drainage and retention study. Kaji was also asked to relocate a handicapped parking space. Commission members, however, talked about expanding three lots now occupied by Weichert Realty, Kaji and Yardley Hardware.

Residents of Cheltenham who have been parking their cars at the Elkins Park SEPTA station for years because parking on nearby streets is scarce are now seeking new places to park. One day, residents were parking their cars in the lot. The next day, some found notices on their cars from SEPTA instructing them not to park in the station lot anymore, lest their cars be towed. A few of those residents complained recently to Cheltenham Township commissioners. "They were just concerned because they were always parking in that lot during off hours (and)

The Tinicum Township Zoning Board has approved a variance request by Tinicum Associates to use a parcel of land that is zoned residential for an employee parking lot at 501 Seminole St., Lester. The parcel of land, which is 125-by-275 feet, is part of a 14-acre site that is zoned as a business center district. The parcel, which itself is zoned residential, abuts Seminole Street, east of Fourth Avenue. At last month's zoning hearing, Joseph Marino, a partner in Tinicum Associates, testifed that the land had been used as a parking lot by the former owner.

Philadelphia Electric Co. will not build a 260-vehicle parking lot between Yale and University Avenues in Springfield if residents in that area have anything to say about it. The parking lot would clog the streets with traffic, encroach on wetlands and pose a danger to children at play, the residents say. "We oppose this vigorously," said Yale Avenue resident Mike Thompson. "The traffic is unbearable now. " PE wants to build the lot to serve a proposed new administration building at Yale and Beech Avenues in Morton, according to Tom Mallon, a community affairs representative for the company.