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Planning Commission backs narrower Waterfront Overlay, trimming about 14,000 acres
Summary
After public comment on both environmental protection and housing access, the commission voted to forward an option to replace tributary-based coverage with an 800-foot shoreline-based Waterfront Overlay (W-1) to the Board of Supervisors.
The Lancaster County Planning Commission voted to forward proposed changes to the county's Waterfront Overlay (W-1) that would remove inland parcels currently included because they are within 800 feet of tributary streams and instead apply the overlay by an 800-foot measure from the water shoreline.
County planning staff said the proposed change would remove roughly 14,000 acres from the existing waterfront overlay, leaving about 20,000 acres still covered and subject to the W-1's minimum 2-acre lot-size subdivision standard and average 200-foot frontage…
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