Diane Daugherty of Murrysville has been looking out her back window at a construction site for the past three years. She doesn’t think the developers should be starting a new project until they finish the current one.

Daugherty voiced her objection at Murrysville Council’s recent public meeting, speaking against a request to rezone property at the corner of Manor and Wilson roads.

The property is part of the master plan for a multiphase development that includes a corporate campus for medical company Dedicated Nursing Associates along with retail, residential and restaurant space.

The first phase was Regan Ridge, 18 townhomes billed as “luxury villas” and priced between $995,000 and $1.29 million, overlooking the future campus site and Route 22. The approved plan included an existing barn on property adjacent to the townhomes, proposed as an activity center.

Project officials now want to rezone that parcel from high-density residential to business, in order to build a fitness center.

“Those townhomes were supposed to be complete by 2023,” Daugherty said. “They need some help to get sold. If they don’t have an additional selling point like that activity center, we’re concerned that they’ll just sit there.”

The Regan Ridge site is home to two sets of semi-completed duplex-style townhomes, the foundation for a third and a few pieces of construction equipment. Daugherty and nearby homeowner William Mura, whose properties abut the Regan Ridge site in the Westmoreland Farms subdivision, said none of the townhomes is occupied.

“We’re worried that the developer is in no rush to complete this development,” Mura said. “The project timeline on their website shows this work is years behind schedule. We’d like to see the original activity center plans carried out, to attract buyers to the property.

“Until then, the business development should happen in the area across (Wilson Road) that’s already zoned for business,” Mura said.

The development company, Bushy Run Investments, also is seeking to expand the Fusting Centre campus just up the highway in Salem, with many of the same features proposed in Murrysville — office, retail and residential space. Dedicated Nursing Associates is currently headquartered there.

Mura said council should reject a zoning change for the Wilson Road property until the townhome units are built and occupied.

“The marketability of these high-priced condos is also a concern,” Mura said. “These are nearly $1 million homes located near high-tension power lines and a four-lane highway.”

Murrysville Chief Administrator Michael Nestico reminded council that rezoning the property opens it up to any of the wide range of permitted uses in the business district.

“While the tentative plan may be a fitness center, at the end of the day, anything that’s a permitted use could also be in there.”

Nestico said Mura and Daugherty do not have much recourse when it comes to construction.

“As long as work there is continuing, then the permits can continue. That’s one of the difficulties we face,” he said. “If they were to stop work there, that would be one thing. But as of right now, with an active permit, they can continue.”

Bushy Run Investments did not return messages seeking comment.

Council did not vote on the rezoning request at the meeting. Councilwoman Jamie Lingg said she felt similar to Mura and Daugherty.

“They haven’t completed what they already started, and now they want to do something new,” Lingg said. “It feels like an over-extension.”

Council’s next meeting is 7 p.m. Oct. 1.

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