Leisureland residents in Jim Thorpe Borough are hoping this time is the last time they have to defend keeping their current addresses.

One week after Jim Thorpe Planning Commission Chairman Louis Hall asked for an official stance on the issue, Council President Greg Strubinger told an eagerly awaiting crowd Thursday night that the borough has “no plan to take any action this evening or any time in the future” on a readdressing project in the development.

Last week, Hall asked for answers, telling council the planning commission had gone as far as it could without a clear direction. Hall said he supported the readdressing efforts, claiming, “some addresses are repeated, there are odd and even numbers on the same side of the street and there are road names that change on a single stretch of street.”

Onoko Lane resident John Martino, however, said Thursday that isn’t the case.

“There is not one address that doesn’t fit the picture,” Martino told council. “We don’t need this address nonsense. We talked to the county EMS folks three times and they said they have no specific problems. They have had no misidentities concerning delays in access to Onoko Lane, Chapman Street or Canal Street.”

One of the reasons Hall also said he backed the project was for the benefit of emergency services. Martino said he’s called the ambulance six times and it never had a problem locating his residence.

Another Onoko Lane resident, Mike Paules, questioned some of Hall’s other comments in support of readdressing. With Hall not in attendance Thursday, Councilman John McGuire clarified that it was council that asked the planning commission to readdress another private development, Glen Onoko Estates.

“Mr. Hall is the chairman of the planning commission. He isn’t coming after anybody personally,” McGuire said. “He is going by the ordinance and what it says for readdressing. We are out of compliance everywhere.”

Paules agreed, noting the borough would have to tackle a lot more than Leisureland to make every street name consistent and get rid of duplicates.

“Are you going to get rid of West Broadway and make it all Broadway to have uniformity?” he said. “Silk Street in Pleasant Hill would have to be Fifth Street. You’d have to do the whole town.”

After that, the planning commission began working on homes in Leisureland.

When residents showed up to a meeting in June voicing objections to the project, however, council pumped the brakes, telling property owners it would “put a pause on the process.”

Council later told the planning commission to finish the work it started on the readdressing project.

On Thursday, Strubinger said he now hopes the planning commission can focus its efforts on some other projects. It is currently working on an ordinance to deal with short-term rentals, among other things.

“They do good work for us,” Strubinger said of the planning commission. “Everything we have asked them to take up, they have done.”

Looking to gauge whether the concerned residents would be making a return trip to a council meeting, Paules pressed Strubinger, “are we done for good with this?”

“I stand by my statement,” Strubinger said. “There are no plans to do any further readdressing at this time.”