State-aid decisions muddle efforts to revitalize towns
By Thomas Hylton
The Ephrata Area School District is poking a big hole in Lancaster County’s carefully crafted plan to preserve its towns and countryside. The district insists on building an $18 million elementary school on 81 acres of farmland in Ephrata Township to replace one in Ephrata Borough. To add insult to injury, the district proposes an access road through a deed-restricted farm field, and it has filed a lawsuit to get it.
Changing Skyline | A vision of suburbia at the Navy Base
Philadelphia Inquirer Article
Developer Willard G. Rouse 3d made his name by building
Philadelphia's tallest office tower, but he made his money dotting the region's suburbs with low-rise office parks. Now his company, Liberty Property Trust, has announced plans to construct that quintessential suburban genre in the city, and the question is, should we celebrate or lament the milestone?
Builders’ group backs plans for ‘smart growth’
You might think the head of the builders’ association for two counties would have a negative view of a regional planning effort that just unveiled a way to eliminate the construction of 10,000 housing units in the coming years.
