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Lancaster County Council approves UDO text amendment to allow four‑story hotels in highway corridor overlay
Summary
The Lancaster County Council voted unanimously to amend the Unified Development Ordinance to allow exceptions in the highway corridor overlay for general business parcels to build up to four stories, not to exceed 55 feet, after staff and the Planning Commission recommended a narrower alternative to an applicant’s original request.
Lancaster County Council voted unanimously to approve an amendment to the county’s Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) that will allow certain general business parcels inside the highway corridor overlay to be developed as four‑story structures not to exceed 55 feet.
The change was requested by an applicant seeking to build a hotel and was considered during the council’s public hearing and first‑reading of Ordinance 2025‑1945. Planning staff, represented by planner Miss Harden, told council members the applicant (identified in the application as Alkesh Patel of OM Hotels) had asked to allow four stories or 55 feet,…
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