SUNBURY — Sunbury City Council approved an ordinance’s third reading that lays out where several new roads around the Kintner Crossing development will go during Wednesday’s meeting.
The 9.26-acre agreement highlights New Cheshire Road, which will add a second contact point between West Cherry Street and what the developer’s blueprint calls Old Cheshire Road.
The new road will split Lots 1 and 5, with two lanes going northbound and one lane that splits into two going southbound.
The agreement lists a conditional use permit for a BellStores convenience store on Lot 5 that the developer obtained in March 2025, which could include a “retail store, fuel pumps and attached car wash and vacuum stations.”
However, none of the plans for the different lots are finalized.
A preliminary plat also highlights Public Street A, which will connect to New Cheshire Road on the left side, leading into Kintner Crossing.
The street will allow for full traffic access to Lots 3, 4 and 5 before connecting to another new roadway.
South Kintner Parkway will be an extension of Kintner Parkway, which currently dead-ends into Silver Crown Homecare, and will connect to Public Street A.
The preliminary plats don’t indicate whether or not South Kintner Parkway will connect to Old Cheshire Road southbound.
In a nutshell, all these new roadways are designed to allow traffic to access the new Kintner Crossing development.
Council approved the legislation 6-0, with Mayor Joe St. John absent from the meeting.
Financing the project
Per the agreement, the project’s developer, Romanelli Schrock, agrees to pay the new roadway improvements’ cost upfront.
Then, once the developer dedicates the roads as public infrastructure, the city of Sunbury will reimburse part of the costs over time.
The city plans to utilize Tax Increment Financing (TIF) money to reimburse the developer.
The TIF will take future increases in property tax value that the Kintner Crossing development generates and redirect them into a fund.
The money from this fund then reimburses the developer’s costs. The city can reimburse the developer 50 percent of costs, provided the reimbursement amount does not exceed $830,000, according to the agreement.
The city will also reimburse $200,000 upfront.
Read the full agreement, and check out the blueprints for the new roadways.
