Preserve the Beauty. Stop the Traffic.
Keep our community safe, peaceful, and green.
Mark Your Calendar
February 18, 2026 7:00 PM
Concord Township Zoning Hearing Board
Continued Appeal of Zoning Officer's Rulings
February 24, 2026 7:00 PM
Concord Township Public Hearing
Giant Liquor License Inter-Municipal Transfer Request
License # R-15669
About Us
Our Story
Our Mission
Our Story
What began as a small group of concerned neighbors has grown into an incorporated nonprofit organization representing more than 1,100 homeowners. We are committed to protecting the character, safety, and long-term well-being of our community through thoughtful advocacy, informed engagement, and responsible planning.
We do not oppose gr
What began as a small group of concerned neighbors has grown into an incorporated nonprofit organization representing more than 1,100 homeowners. We are committed to protecting the character, safety, and long-term well-being of our community through thoughtful advocacy, informed engagement, and responsible planning.
We do not oppose growth; rather, we advocate for development that is thoughtful, responsible, carefully planned, and proportionate to the capacity and character of our community.
The Issue
Our Mission
Our Story
Our community stands at a crossroads. A major developer, Retail Sites LLC, based in New Jersey, operating through the shell corporation Concord Acquisitions, has proposed a 24-acre retail development at the corner of Ridge Road and Route 202.
This project threatens to permanently alter the rural character, safety, and natural beauty that
Our community stands at a crossroads. A major developer, Retail Sites LLC, based in New Jersey, operating through the shell corporation Concord Acquisitions, has proposed a 24-acre retail development at the corner of Ridge Road and Route 202.
This project threatens to permanently alter the rural character, safety, and natural beauty that make our community home.
It will bring increased traffic and congestion to already overburdened roads, heighten flooding risks from stormwater runoff, and threaten groundwater quality, potentially rendering private wells unusable. It may disrupt local wildlife habitats, and erode the quiet, scenic character that defines our community.
Our Mission
Our Mission
Our Mission
As a newly incorporated nonprofit (EIN #39‑5058583), our mission is to protect the safety, well-being, and quality of life for residents of Chadds Ford and Concord Township.
To date this site has logged more than 14,400 visits - people who want to learn more about our work—and we’re just getting started!
Thanks to our passionate volunteers
As a newly incorporated nonprofit (EIN #39‑5058583), our mission is to protect the safety, well-being, and quality of life for residents of Chadds Ford and Concord Township.
To date this site has logged more than 14,400 visits - people who want to learn more about our work—and we’re just getting started!
Thanks to our passionate volunteers, who are donating hundreds of hours on behalf of affected neighbors.
We are Working Hard for Our Community
Legal Representation
Environmental Advocacy
An Involved Community
We have taken actions to ensure that the community is not merely observing this process from the sidelines, but is formally recognized, legally present, and impossible to ignore.
By being granted Party Status in the Concord Township Zoning Hearing proceedings through legal counsel retained on behalf of affected homeowners, our organization has secured the right to fully participate in the hearings—presenting evidence, questioning witnesses, and responding on the record. This status is essential to protecting due process and ensuring that community concerns are treated with the same seriousness as those of the applicant.
Our active participation in public meetings in Concord Township and Chadds Ford Township, often alongside impacted residents, ensures that decision-makers hear directly from the people who live with the consequences of these decisions. Showing up—consistently and in person—keeps the process transparent and grounded in real-world impacts, not just technical submissions.
Finally, by submitting formal written objections to the Delaware County Planning Commission, the applicant, and both Townships, we have ensured that our concerns are permanently documented and preserved in the official record. This matters not only for current decision-making, but for accountability and any future reviews or appeals.
Together, these steps protect the community’s voice, its rights, and its future. They ensure that decisions affecting the character, safety, and well-being of our neighborhoods are made with full public participation—not behind closed doors, and not without consequence.
An Involved Community
Environmental Advocacy
An Involved Community
Our group is more than 20,000 people strong, because protecting a community is never the work of just one type of person. It takes neighbors who have lived here for decades, families raising children, seniors who depend on safe roads and clean air, local workers, environmental stewards, and residents who simply love this place and refuse to see it harmed.
To date, this site has been visited over 14,400 times by people who are searching for information, clarity, and ways to help—people who care deeply about what happens here and who believe this proposed development is harmful and fundamentally out of step with our community.
More than 1,100 residents have put their names in writing—signing petitions and submitting formal letters—to say clearly and publicly that they are concerned, engaged, and ready to stand up for their neighborhood. Several residents have gone even further by choosing to be actively represented by Save Ridge legal counsel at the Concord Township Zoning Hearings, demonstrating not only opposition, but resolve.
Beyond these numbers are thousands more acts of support—emails sent, letters written, calls made, conversations sparked. Residents have reached out to elected officials, the developer, potential tenants, and the media. They have spoken up online, shared their stories, and encouraged others to pay attention.
This is not casual interest or momentary outrage. It is sustained, heartfelt concern from a community that understands what is at stake and is determined to protect the place we call home.
Environmental Advocacy
Environmental Advocacy
Environmental Advocacy
Environmental impacts, once approved and built, are often irreversible. Wetlands, mature woodlands, wildlife habitat, and natural drainage systems cannot be easily restored once they are disturbed or destroyed. That is why it is essential that environmental reviews are based on accurate, complete, and site-specific information—not assumptions, omissions, or generic studies.
By submitting formal correspondence to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, as well as several other environmental permitting agencies, we have elevated serious concerns about multiple deficiencies in the applicant’s environmental filings and permit submissions. This ensures that these agencies are aware that the record, as currently presented, may not fully or accurately reflect the environmental realities of the site.
We have specifically requested that the permitting and review process be re-evaluated using corrected, site-specific data, particularly with respect to the wetlands and woodland resources present on the property. These natural features provide flood protection, water quality benefits, wildlife habitat, and ecological balance—not just for this site, but for the surrounding community as well.
At its core, this effort is about stewardship and responsibility—ensuring that development decisions do not come at the expense of our natural resources, our safety, or future generations. Environmental protections exist for a reason, and insisting they be properly applied is one of the most important ways a community can protect itself.
Community Advocacy
PennDOT Intervention
Environmental Advocacy
Decisions that permanently affect a neighborhood should never happen without the people who live there fully informed and able to participate. Community information rallies and direct outreach ensure that residents are not left in the dark about proceedings that may impact their homes, safety, and quality of life.
By organizing information rallies and distributing flyers to the approximately 250 residents living closest to the proposed development, we are making sure that those most directly affected understand what is being proposed, when decisions are being made, and—most importantly—that they know they have rights. These efforts are about fairness and access, especially in a process that can feel intimidating or difficult to navigate without guidance.
We also acknowledge the many homeowners and business owners who have stepped forward in visible ways—displaying lawn signs, wearing tee-shirts, and sharing bumper stickers. These small but powerful acts of participation signal something important: this is not the concern of a few individuals, but a shared community effort rooted in care for our neighborhoods and the future we are building together.
Public awareness leads to public participation—and public participation is how communities protect themselves.
PennDOT Intervention
PennDOT Intervention
PennDOT Intervention
PennDOT intervention is critically important because it ensures that the voices of local residents are legally recognized and cannot be ignored.
By submitting formal written objections and Petitions to Intervene to PennDOT regarding the proposed Highway Occupancy Permit and its accompanying traffic study—which contains significant deficiencies—we have moved community concerns into the official decision-making process. These filings are not symbolic. They become part of PennDOT’s administrative record, meaning they must be reviewed, weighed, and addressed before any final determination is made.
Several homeowners have already been granted limited intervention status, a meaningful legal threshold. This status gives residents the right to receive notices of hearings, filings, and PennDOT decisions, ensuring transparency and preventing decisions from being made quietly or without public awareness. Just as importantly, intervenors may submit written statements, technical materials, exhibits, and formal objections—and PennDOT is required to consider those submissions as part of its review.
In other words, this process protects the community’s seat at the table.
Recognizing how confusing and inaccessible this process can feel, we have also launched a homeowner education campaign to empower residents with clear information about their legal rights in the PennDOT review process.
Media Attention
PennDOT Intervention
PennDOT Intervention
Public awareness is essential when decisions of this magnitude are being made. Land-use and zoning proceedings are often complex, technical, and difficult for residents to follow, yet the outcomes can permanently reshape a community. Engaging with local media ensures that this process does not unfold quietly or without public understanding.
By working with trusted local outlets, we have helped bring transparency to a proposal that carries significant consequences for homeowners, road safety, environmental impacts, and quality of life.
To date, numerous articles have been published, covering not only residents’ concerns but also explaining the zoning and approval process itself—information that empowers people to participate rather than feel excluded or overwhelmed.
We are deeply grateful to our local media for their thoughtful, responsible reporting and for their commitment to keeping residents informed with clear, timely, and accessible information. Local media plays a critical role in ensuring accountability and in giving voice to those most affected by development decisions.
The outcome of this proposal will have lasting implications for the character, safety, and well-being of our community. Informed public engagement is not optional—it is essential. When residents understand what is being proposed and how decisions are made, they are better equipped to speak up, ask hard questions, and help protect the place they call home.
Share Your Feedback with Potential Retail Tenants
The developer has stated that the strip mall is 70% committed, listing the following confirmed tenants:
- Giant SuperMarket (Anchor)
- Club Studio Fitness
- Discount Tire
- Flagship Carwash
They are also advertising three available pads with drive-throughs, defined as restaurants or food establishments that serve customers in vehicles via a drive-through window or service lane, whether or not indoor seating is provided.
These proposed uses are not permitted on this site under current zoning. Allowing them would require a reversal of the Zoning Officer’s determinations and the granting of multiple conditional use waivers.
WHY DRIVE-THROUGHS MATTER
Drive-through restaurants are often regulated separately because they can:
- Generate significantly higher traffic volumes
- Create vehicle stacking and queuing issues
- Increase noise, lighting, and emissions
- Impact pedestrian safety and the character of nearby residential areas
These concerns highlight why such uses are inconsistent with the site’s zoning and why careful review and community input are critical before any approvals are granted.
ACTION
Now is the time to reach to these retailers directly to educate them about your concerns.
Giant Contact Information:
The Giant Company
1149 Harrisburg Pike
Carlisle, PA 17013
Phone: (888) 814-4268
John Ruane, President, The Giant Company – John.Ruane@giantfoodstores.com
Ms. Rebecca Lupfer, Chief Merchant – Rebecca.Lupfer@giantfoodstores.com
Mr. Dave Lessard, Chief Operator – Dave.Lessard@giantfoodstores.com
Mr. William Regan, Chief Financial Officer – William.Regan@giantfoodstores.com
Flagship Carwash: Contact Us