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County transportation sales-tax package under review after November referendum loss
Summary
County transportation committee recommended a smaller 10-year sales-tax package after a 2024 referendum failed; staff may adjust the proposal and County Council will decide whether to place a new measure on the ballot.
Lancaster County staff and council members discussed a proposed transportation sales-tax package that county volunteers and staff refined after a 2024 referendum failed.
County officials said the November 2024 proposal — a 1% local sales-tax increase that would have raised the county rate from 8% to 9% — was estimated to generate about $405 million over 15 years and included roughly $100 million for municipal and county roads and about 30 state and local road projects affecting the city of Lancaster. That measure did not pass.
The County Transportation Committee of citizen volunteers recommended a smaller…
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