‘Hearing' has several meanings

DINGMAN — Robert and Jennifer DiGiovanna appeared before the township supervisors regarding their home occupation conditional use application. The Pocono Mountain Woodland Lakes couple appeared earlier this month with Jessica Bentley-Sassaman, an interpreter, who was needed because of the DiGiovannas inability to hear or speak. DiGiovanna earlier appeared before his community association board and 13 residents who live near his home detailing his metal milling workshop, which includes a milling machine and a metal lathe. He does contract work in their home’s garage. DiGiovanna does not advertise and said waste metal would be stored in a steel barrel inside his garage and transported to a licensed disposal yard in Newburgh or Port Jervis, N.Y. He would be working with aluminum, steel, stainless steel and small amounts of other metals. On Feb. 27 the Township Planning Commission recommended the granting of the Home Occupation Conditional Use application with five conditions including: no other employees; hours limited to Monday through Friday 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; equipment limited to the vertical mill and floor lathe; No more than two package deliveries per day; Waste products will be disposed of in a proper manner. The supervisors, in approving the application, added that the doors and windows must remain closed at all times and if necessary an air conditioning cooling unit must be installed.