Ten Mile Crook: Great post on Lancaster development issues

“The Kid” has some good comments on how development problems have spread beyond housing itself. He specifically mentions housing quality, vs. quantity, and school district growth rates, as among the problems.

Here's what I posted in reply:

You're absolutely right on how uncontrolled growth has affected the school district.

Strange, a lot of ppl associated with Lewis, or the Ed Foundation, or whatever, were city bigwigs back in the late 1990s already.

As I've said, on things like design standards, not just house and lot sizes, these ppl let the city get at least one development code out of date.

If that hadn't happened, the school district wouldn't still supposedly be one bond issue out of date. (Of course, you have to get something built right, too.)

And, above all, a commercial real estate agent, and a residential one, who can remain nameless but everybody knows them on Town Square, should have known better about design standards as well as house and lot sizes.

Of course, if that affects your property values, or your wheeling and dealing ...

'Nuff said for now.