Bullets flying near a personal care home continues to spark controversy with the Eldred Township supervisors.

Attorney John Molnar spoke to the board Wendesday night about the ongoing issue with the current zoning ordinance and the Tanzosh property.The property in question is owned by David J. Tanzosh and Timothy J. Tanzosh of Kunkletown and was used as a farm.The Tanzoshes have a contract to sell the property to RTSP LLC, but it is contingent upon the zoning amendment approval.RTSP LLC, a New Jersey company, is interested in buying the property to build an outdoor gun range. The range would be located 3,200 feet behind Mrs. Bush's Personal Care Home and the former Eldred Township Elementary School, which will be the new community center.In January, the supervisors denied the request for a hearing to change the zoning.Molnar said that in the 2004 edition of the zoning ordinance a shooting range was an acceptable use as a Rural Resource district.In the 2014 adopted zoning ordinance "shooting preserves" are under special exemptions.Molnar said, "It is unclear if the shooting use was intentionally or inadvertently left out of the 2014 revision."Attorney Dan Lyons, representing the board of supervisors, said, "At this point there is nothing happening. The Board of Supervisors have the ability to use the legislative powers to deny any request or move forward on a request."Draft amendments to the zoning ordinance have been provided to the board of supervisors by multiple entities.ConcernsAttorneys for Mrs. Bush's Personal Care Home have raised concerns about the nuisance this could cause to the area and their residents.Lawyers say the shooting range would be pointed in a direction away from the personal care home and into a mountainside.RTSP owns an indoor shooting range in East Randolph, New Jersey.Robert Kidwell, representing Mrs. Bush's Personal Care Home, told the board previously that the issue is not only the decibel of the sound, but also the intensity of the sound, the rate at which the sound is occurring.Emergency Management Coordinator Gary Hoffman raised a concern about limited access.Both the Kunkletown Fire Department and the West End Community Ambulance Association submitted documentation citing only one possible pull-off area approximately midpoint down the approximately 0.7 mile road identified as Lebar Lane.Special meetingCJ Dickinson, business manager for West End Ambulance, provided documentation to Hoffman that stated, "At this time we would not recommend that this project move forward without increasing the size of the access road to allow two vehicles the ability to traverse the roadway in opposite directions of one another without yielding to the other."Supervisor Mary Anne Clausen asked fellow board members, "Why are we even moving forward with this?"Clausen placed a .50-caliber "dummy" bullet on the table and said, "This is the type of bullet that could be shot here."She added, "This will be a nuisance to the entire area."Chairman Gretchen Pettit said she "doesn't want to take away any property owners' rights without the necessary information."Pettit made a motion to hold a special meeting to discuss this situation further, as Supervisor Sharon Solt provided the second to the motion.Clausen was the lone dissenting vote. No date or time has been set for this meeting.