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Resident warns of thousands of houses in Sussex County approval pipeline; urges pause
Summary
A Lewes resident told Sussex County Council the current pipeline includes 33 development applications that could add more than 10,000 housing units and nearly 25,000 people, and urged coordination with infrastructure and consideration of a temporary pause on large approvals.
Allison White of Lewes told the Sussex County Council on Dec. 9 that a surge of development applications in the county's planning pipeline could significantly increase population and strain county services.
"Together, they would add 639 single-family homes to our area," White said in a prepared public comment, then expanded the scope based on her review of the land-use docket. She reported a total of 33 applications in the pipeline (29 in the pipeline plus four approved and not yet built) that, combined, would develop about…
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