Four members of New Castle County Council are sponsoring an ordinance to create a new zoning district for land in parks â a plan that the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control has âsignificant concernsâ about. âThis new P zoning district created by ordinance 24-130 would only apply to preserved parcels owned in fee simple by the county, …
Users of New Castle Countyâs 250 or so parks now have a free app for reporting non-emergency maintenance concerns about them. âJust snap a photo and submit it using the app,â the county writes on the introductory page for the My-NCC app. âRequests are automatically added to our work order system, allowing our teams to respond quickly and efficiently,â the …
Pickleball is in, and handball is out in a concept for Bechtel Park. New Castle County has scheduled a meeting on Monday, Aug. 12, to outline its plans for the 25-acre county park on Naamans Road in Brandywine Hundred, just west of Talley Middle. The meeting will be 6-7:30 p.m. at the Claymont Library, 400 Lenape Way. âThe plan that …
Light pollution was on many Delawareansâ minds in mid-May as they sought dark places to observe the northern lights. And a few days later New Castle County Council unanimously approved an ordinance to reduce light pollution. âOrdinance 23-122 only affects new commercial construction projects (or significant redevelopment projects), and at its most basic simply ensures that light and energy …
New Castle County is giving residents three more weeks to pay sewer bills that it says were delayed in the mail. âWhen our office was alerted that residents had not received their annual sewer bills as expected, we immediately investigated the situation and learned that the delay had been caused by operational changes at the United States Postal Service, County …
A post-midnight shooting at an illegal pop-up party at Glasgow Regional Park has led New Castle County Police to take âa proactive approachâ on controlling parties at county parks. The party apparently involved people leaving a Newark hotel and deciding via Instagram to move to Glasgow Park, even though it was closed, according to Cpl. Michael McNasby, a spokesman for …
New Castle County has started to accept credit cards and digital wallets for sewer bills â without any extra fees to users. âNO FEES!â the county announced on a insert on attention-grabbing green paper in the bills for sewer service charges that just went out. As the insert explains, the county has an arrangement with a company called Paymentus that …
