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DEVELOPMENT STATE SUPREME COURT

Rules for
SWEET MAKEOVER seizing
property
narrow
Prosecutors must prove
property played significant
role in committing a crime
MARK SCOLFORO
ASSOCIATED PRESS

HARRISBURG Pennsylvanias high-

est court on Thursday reined in the power
of prosecutors to seize peoples property
through civil actions.
The justices ruled unanimously that
prosecutors must prove a property played
a significant role in committing a crime,
and its value must be proportionate to the
offense.
The decision gave new life to a 72-year-
old womans legal quest to regain a used
minivan and $54,000 west Philadelphia
home she argues were unfairly taken after
her adult son was investigated for selling
RICHARD HERTZLER | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
small amounts of marijuana.
Oak Tree Development Group has announced it will develop the former Wilbur Chocolate factory in downtown Lititz. In the
I think its a really big change I think
front of the property, the idle 180,000-square-foot manufacturing and office complex will be partially demolished. Oak Tree it makes it much harder for the common-
will use the remainder of the buildings plus new construction to create a boutique hotel, apartments and retail shops. wealth to take peoples property without
going through a much more detailed and
much more comprehensive analysis,
Hotel, apartments, shops, bistro planned at idle Wilbur site said attorney Jessica Anthony, lawyer for
property owner Elizabeth Young.
The Philadelphia district attorneys of-

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TIM MEKEEL
TMEKEEL@LNPNEWS.COM fice issued a statement that characterized
COURT, page A10
he vacant Wilbur Chocolate site in downtown Lititz will be revital-
ized by developing a hotel and apartments there, it was announced
Tuesday. Lancaster-based Oak Tree Development Group said it
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has agreed to buy the 11-acre property from Wilburs owner, Car-
gill, for an undisclosed price.
Hearing set
on permits
The announcement ends 20 months of uncertainty over the CHRONOLOGY

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fate of the North Broad Street property, a major part of the bor-
oughs bustling downtown.

for pipeline
We like projects that are community-centric, Oak Tree Presi-
dent Mike OBrien said. Were excited to do a project that posi-
tively impacts a small town like this. Wilbur comes to Lititz.

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Oak Tree expects to submit plans to the borough in 60 days.
The firm hopes to get them approved by year-end, start con- Local session June 12 covers
struction in early 2018 and complete the venture by March 2019.
A name for the project has yet to be selected, OBrien said. He last 2 required approvals
declined to disclose the projects cost. Cargill buys Wilbur.
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Were eager to work with Oak Tree, Karen ACRABLE@LNPNEWS.COM
Weibel, president of Lititz Borough Council,
said. The state Department of Environmen-
Its a local firm. They have a lot tal Protection has decided to hold four
of credibility. Were extremely Wilbur plant closes. public hearings, including one in Lan-
thankful that the building caster, on the last permits needed to build
will be utilized quickly and the Atlantic Sunrise gas pipeline through
not sit there for five or RELATED Lancaster County.
10 years and invite COVERAGE Though the project has been approved
WILBUR, page A8 See the proposed plan for by the Federal Energy Regulatory Com-
the former factory, page A9. mission, the $3 billion pipeline that would
pass through 37 miles of Lancaster Coun-
ty still needs two permits from the state.
They are a water obstruction and en-
croachment permit, where the pipeline
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