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Chester, Countyone of the fastest-growing in PennsylvaniaBy Michael P. Rellahan

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Chester County remains onesylvania's fastest growing countieulation, according to figures relecently by the U.S. Census bureaualso bucking a trend in the stateits population growth is taking p1

Although the overwhelmingof new residents in the county foihome in one of its 57 townships, tsignificant growth from July 201(2012 in its 15 boroughs, the numb

"Chester County is differentstatewide trends," said David W'assistant director of the countyCommittee, who spoke aboutcensus numbers on Friday. "Weing as much reinvestment in the bas new development in the towns

The growth in borough poptWard and others said, was drivnumber of factors, including theinfrastructure such as roads anand sewage systems are largelyand that younger residents are fmore affordable to locate in thosurban areas.

According -to the Census. Bureau's es-.com .timates, the county's population, rose by.- • 7,697 over the two-year span from 2010 toof Penn- 2012, from 498,886 to 506;575, an increases in pop- of 1.5 percent. (The county's populationeased re- topped the 500,000 mark in July 2011,but it is with an estimated 503,662 residents.)

in where Only Montgomery County, with anace.' increase of 8,579 residents, had a largernumber growth than Chester County, although itsnd their rate of 1.1 percent was behind Chester's.here was Philadelphia gained the largest number) to July of new residents in the time period of anyers show. municipality, with 21,601.than the Pennsylvania now has more thantard, the 12,763,000 residents, adding 61,157 overPlanning the period.the new Of the counties close to Chester inare see- growth, Lancaster added 7,375 residents,oroughs Allegheny added 5,990, and Lehigh add-hips." ed 5,748.ulations, Nearby, Delaware County added 2,126'en by a new residents, and Bucks County addedfact that 1,804..d water Of the growth within the county, Westin place, Goshen led all municipalities, with 826inding it new residents added to its 2010 popula-e largely tion of 22,926, a 3.8 percent growth rate,

meaning that it was the third-fastest grow-

ing township in the state, behind leaderUpper Macungie'in Lehigh.

West Goshen is the second-largesttownship in the county in population, be-hind Tredyffrin, which has an estimated29,457 residents.

According to the data, nearly threequarters (74.0 percent) of the growth inthe state's population since 2010 can beattributed to townships. From 2010 to2012, the population of its 1,547 town-ships grew from 7,098,888 to 7,143,594.

Cities also experienced growth overthe time period., gaining 17,313 people, or28.3 percent.

Meanwhile, the state's boroughsshowed a decline of 2.3 percent.

In Chester County, boroughs increasedin population overall, rising by 970 resi-dents, or an increase of 12.6 percent.

Leading the way was West Chester, thecounty seat, which added 396 residents,making it the third-fastest growing boroughin the state, behind Mount Joy in Lancaster.

Avondale added 125 residents, fol-lowed by Phoenixville with 78, Elversonwith 54, and Kennett Square with 41.

Only Modena failed to add new residents,losing one person in the census estimates.

West, Chester Borough Manager Er-nie McNeely said the growth in popula-tion was most likely attributable to thedevelopment of two new townhousedevelopments, one on the former Bish-op Shanahan High School property onWest Gay Street, and the other on theformer Hoffman Lumber Yard site onSouth Franklin Street.

McNeely said that rather than bring mu-nicipal challenges to the borough, the popu-lation increase has been a benefit, as the newresidents pay earned-income taxes into itsbudget. "Those are working folks paying tax-es that contribute to the borough," he said.

In addition, the developments do notrequire the borough to add to its existing in-frastructure the way township developmentmight.

Meanwhile, townships are having togauge how best to handle the new popula-tion. Michael Lynch, township managerin East Bradford, said .his municipal lead-ers had been able to stabilize growth insome part by purchasing open space anddevelopment rights of acres of undevel-oped land in the township.

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Conrail responds toa Paulsboro lawsuitRailroad companies maintain they should be exemptfrom strict liability in derailment damages, injuries.

By Andrew SeidmanINQUIRER STAFF WRITER

Conrail and its parent compa-nies, in a substantive response toone of a flood of lawsuits filedagainst them after the Novembertrain derailment and chemicalleak in Paulsboro, maintain thatthey are "exempt from strict liabili-ty" for injuries and damages be-cause they are common carrierslegally obliged to transport hazard-ous freight.

The companies filed the re-sponse last Wednesday in theCourt of Common Pleas in. Phila-delphia, where Conrail has itsheadquarters.

The strict standard of liabilityholds that the defendant is legallyresponsible for injuries regardlessof intent or carelessness.

"The logic is, if you choose to,say, use dynamite in a construc-tion project, you ought to be ableto bear the risk that you injuresomeone. Common carriers don'thave that choice," said Jay M. Fein-man, a professor at the Rutgers-Camden School of Law. '"By law,they have 'to accept shipmentsfrom anybody who pays thefreight."

Some courts have departedfrom that rule, he said.

The suit, filed May 2 by 20 Pauls-boro and Westville residents in thePhiladelphia Court of CommonPleas, seeks compensatory and pu-nitive damages, as well as medicalmonitoring to detect health risksrelated to significant exposure tothe toxic chemical vinyl chloride.

•The Railroad' Defendants en-gaged in an abnormally dangerousactivity ... in a manner the Rail-road Defendants knew to be dan-gerous and without taking properprecautions," the suit alleges.

It adds that the railroad compa-nies' "willful and reckless con-duct" caused the derailment andsubsequent spill of vinyl chloride.

The plaintiffs are representedby the Philadelphia firm-Messa &Associates.

Nearly 700 residents. had toleave Paulsboro, some for weeks,after a freight train derailed off anautomated drawbridge, sendingfour tanker cars into MantuaCreek and releasing thousands ofgallons of hazardous vinyl chlorideinto the atmosphere.

In their response, Conrail, Nor-folk Southern Railway Co., andCSX Týansportation Inc. arguethat the complaint "does not con-tain factual allegations showingthat Plaintiffs suffered any signifi-cant exposure to vinyl chloride,that such an exposure would putany specific plaintiff, at a signifi-cantly increased risk of developingany specific disease, or that a rea-sonable and effective medical-mon-itoring regimen exists for that dis-ease."

The response does not addressthe charge of negligence. At least adozen lawsuits have been filedagainst Conrail in relation to thetrain derailment.

In an earlier response to a sepa-rate lawsuit, filed by more than 50Paulsboro residents in the Court ofCommon Pleas, -Conrail deniedthat there was a massive spill ofvinyl chloride as a result of thecollapse of the East JeffersonStreet Bridge.

That response, filed in Decem-ber, attributes any injuries sus-tained by the plaintiffs to their"own negligence."

'The bottom line is, if they're notheld strictly liable, they were al-most certainly negligent andthey'll be held liable for negli-gence," said Mark R. Cuker, an at-torney representing plaintiffs inthe December suit.

His suit, which seeks medicalmonitoring and compensatory andpunitive damages, does not holdConrail to the strict liability stan-dard.

Contact Andrew Seidmanat 856-779-3846,[email protected] or@ATdrewSeidman, on Twitter. I

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