The Springfield Township supervisors have agreed to hold a special meeting on Tuesday, May 27, to consider giving conditional approval for the Dallastown Area Intermediate School construction plans.

The construction project has been delayed more than a year in the design phase because of issues with stormwater management and erosion control. Dallastown has been trying to get conditional approval for its construction plans from the township's supervisors. The most recent opportunity to approve the plans, a meeting scheduled for April 30, was canceled because there were still design problems.

The board of supervisors told Dallastown district officials at Monday's regular supervisors' meeting that it will meet at 7 p.m. May 27 if Dallastown can resolve all of its outstanding design issues by a May 20 deadline. The May 27 meeting might result in the board's giving conditional approval of the plans, according to Springfield Township secretary Barb Sweitzer.

The school is designed for 1,800 students and expandable to 2,000 students, and is planned for 53 acres the district owns along the Susquehanna Trail. The Springfield Township Planning Commission voted in March 2007 to recommend non-approval of the plans because of stormwater management and erosion control concerns.

Dallastown officials told the board that they are confident the issues can be resolved soon, but Sweitzer said there are too many factors to be sure that the May 20 deadline can be met.

"I don't know that

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anybody could give you a good guess on that point. There are factors that depend on other factors," Sweitzer said.

Dallastown Superintendent Stewart Weinberg said Monday's meeting showed that all parties are going "in a very good direction." Weinberg said he believes the May 27 meeting will be fruitful.

"We really believe we will have serious decisions that night," Weinberg said.