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Robert Reynolds
For Maxatawny Township Supervisor
VOTE November 4, 2025
Why Support RobertReynolds?
Proven Leadership Experience - Fourteen years of continuous service to the citizens of Maxatawny Township.
Extensive Maxatawny Planning Knowledge- Current chair of the Planning Commission. Reynolds has reviewed, commented on, and sought improvements in every development project over the past five years.
Skeptical of Mega-Warehouses - Reynolds has been a party to the opposition to the Airport, Hilltop Road, and 222 warehouse proposals, and has cross examined witnesses and presents his own cases challenging developer testimony and compliance with our ordinances. Immediate tax revenue must be weighed against future road repairs from trucks and the likelihood of needing a police force paid by residents due to these projects.
Preserving our Heritage- Reynolds established and chairs the Maxatawny Historic Commission that administers building documentation for demolitions of buildings 100 years and older. Ordinances now require discussion of the fate of historic buildings much earlier in the development process than before.
Pursuing Township Financial Security - Appointed to the board charged with writing a new comprehensive plan in cooperation with the municipalities in our school district. This plan will help envision new directions to a better financial future for Maxatawny and encourage collaboration among our neighboring municipalities.
Transparency- This campaign was fully funded by the candidate and residents of Maxatawny Township and remains independent of either political party or any special interest.
The future for Maxatawny is a choice we make together, right now, on election day. As supervisor, Robert Reynolds will develop every tool available to ensure that the Maxatawny rural character of family farms, villages, and agricultural landscapes, shall remain as dominant as possible for future generations.
Rob Reynolds
Twenty years ago, I settled in Maxatawny to restore the Hottenstein mansion and teach American history. Setting up the township historic commission and chairing the planning commission, has taught me a lot about the current and future needs of the township.
In the primary in May, residents voted down a record high school tax ballot measure that was alarming. The township must take notice and engage in long-range planning, to achieve better long-term financial success. I am a Republican candidate for Supervisor, who will create and implement a clear long range vision and plan, captured in a comprehensive plan, to meet the current and future needs of our community.
The Future
New Comprehensive Plan for Maxatawny
For the first time, the municipalities in the Kutztown School District are working together on a joint comprehensive plan. The current Maxatawny plan is beyond outdated and was written before solar farms and mega-warehousing existed. By working together as the communities within our school district, I believe we can achieve financial stability with coordinated growth that does not threaten our rural way of life and protect our future.
Are Mega Warehouses the Answer?
Mega-warehouse projects deliver tax dollars to municipalities, but they have impacts that are paid for by taxpayers and residents that grow in cost over time. Across dozens of conditional use warehouse hearings in the past few years, I have learned that it is impossible for such enormous projects to contain their impacts within the properties they are developing.
The initial benefits of increased property taxes from large development projects need to be weighed against the true cost of hosting such projects. Large warehouses will add thousands of tractor trailer truck trips per week using many Maxatawny roads. There is no workable method for Maxatawny to keep tractor trailers off the sharp curved, narrow and hilly back roads that serve as shortcuts between I-78 and 222 even though it is illegal for these trucks to use these shortcuts.
Maxatawny Experience
After a nearby landmark stone farmhouse was demolished in 2012, I got involved in Maxatawny. I founded the Maxatawny Historic Commission and developed a process that allows for photos to be taken before demolition occurs of historic buildings. I joined the Planning Commission in 2021 at the same time the township faced some of the largest development proposals in our history. Our outdated comprehensive plan and ordinances were not written to manage large warehouse projects or large solar farms, and newer forms of development, leaving Maxatawny vulnerable. The most impactful ordinances for warehousing, solar farms, and landscaping are now being updated.
Experience and Family
I worked as a carpenter for the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the National Park Service, married, moved to Vermont to study Historic Preservation, worked in Bucks County as an architectural historian and attended Lehigh University, before moving to Maxatawny. Our daughter was fully educated in the Kutztown public schools and will soon become an elementary school teacher, while my wife works as a local school bus driver.
Moving Forward
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