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Commission backs SALDO amendment to streamline small lot consolidations

Chester Planning Commission · November 14, 2025
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Summary

Planning staff proposed an administrative exemption to the SALDO to allow up to three contiguous lots with common ownership to be consolidated via an administrative review (sealed survey and deed required); the commission voted to recommend the amendment to council, subject to solicitor and county review.

The Planning Commission discussed and voted to recommend a proposed amendment to the subdivision and land development ordinance (SALDO) that would create an administrative process for small lot consolidations.

Planning staff explained that many local property owners seek to merge a principal single‑family lot with adjacent vacant lots they own, but the current SALDO process can impose a lengthy and costly full subdivision…

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