Foster Township officials went over goals for 2018 during a work session meeting held Thursday, including rolling out a new zoning code.

Supervisor Gus Crissman said the zoning districts will be decreased from 10 to five, and Supervisor George Hocker said that those would include single-family, multi-family, industrial and manufacturing, agricultural/conservation and central commercial business. Spotted commercial zoning will be eliminated in the township.

“We’re combining the districts, so that your businesses are kept in one area, your industries are in an area. That way your homes that you’re remodeling or building don’t have something sitting right beside it,” Hocker said. “That’s how it is going to benefit the township.”

He said he wants the North Central Pennsylvania Regional Planning and Development Commission of Ridgway to check over the mapping before the zoning changes are implemented.

“We are hoping (the rezoning) can be done by spring with all the legal stuff,” Hocker said.

In the meantime, he gave people attending the work session some homework.

“So, everybody who’s here, think about the restrictions in those zones, and in our next meeting we’ll have ours written up, and we’ll look at yours and combine them all,” Hocker said. “And the bottom line is, you are coming to the meetings, trying to help us. If there are other people who don’t come and they want to complain later down the road, that’s not my problem.”

Also on the drawing board for this year is redoing part of the intersection at the East Main Street and Derrick Road in Foster Brook. Plans call the relocation of a pole and signs, but Hocker said that holdup has been with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.

“That (project) looks like it will be done this year, and we will get that designed and looking better,” he said.

In addition, the township’s last main artery will be repaved this year — Interstate Parkway from the state line to the Bradford Township boundary.

Also at the work session, Hocker said that a home repair program is available for the elderly and low-income residents.

People are able to use the program for such projects as having new windows or a roof installed, he said. For example, one home’s repairs could cost $15,000 or another $40,000 and be covered under the program, he said.

Hocker said he hasn’t seen anyone be denied participation in the program.

The next meeting of the board of supervisors is slated for Feb. 5, starting at 7 p.m. at the municipal building at 1185 E. Main St.