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Lancaster County officials map rapid housing growth, wastewater capacity and impact-fee study
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County and city staff told a joint Lancaster County meeting that rapid residential development is concentrated in the south, wastewater capacity and infrastructure drive annexation, and the city is studying impact fees to help pay for capital costs.
Allison Harden, Lancaster County development services director, told a joint meeting of Lancaster County and the City of Lancaster that as of Jan. 31, 2025 the county had "approximately 53,942 tax parcels" and "several thousand tracts already approved for development," concentrated in the southern part of the county.
Harden said the county and city face pressure from incoming residents and national homebuilders and cited a prior projection that estimated Lancaster County could reach 130,000–160,000 people by 2035; the county's most recent census-based count is just over 100,000. "We are drawing people and they're coming," Harden said, noting the county must decide where growth will locate and how infrastructure and services will serve new residents.
The county highlighted a series of large planned developments inside and adjacent to the city, including Edgewater (described as about 15,000 units on the south-to-west side of the county in…
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