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Commission explores preservation district, design standards and ways to allow narrower townhouses
Summary
Planning commissioners reviewed options to enable 14–18‑foot‑wide townhouses and other small‑lot housing types while preserving historic character: ideas included a tailored historic/demolition‑abatement district, new "mews" street type, and incentives for durable masonry construction
Commissioners and planning staff spent substantial time on June 16 discussing a preservation‑oriented zoning approach to preserve West Chester's historic character while allowing attainable, smaller homes and pedestrian‑scaled development.
Staff presented maps of existing building footprints overlaid with zoning and earlier historic‑resource maps. Commissioners described regulatory barriers dating to a 1966 zoning code and subsequent decades that now make many historic narrow rowhouse types effectively illegal…
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