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Lancaster County staff outlines UDO rewrite, floating smaller lot sizes and PDD limits
Summary
Allison Harden, Lancaster County director of development services, briefed the Board of Zoning Appeals on the Unified Development Ordinance rewrite, including proposals to allow smaller lot sizes via cluster overlays, how plan development districts (PDDs) would be negotiated with county council, and a moratorium timetable aiming for UDO completion within nine months unless extended.
Allison Harden, director of development services for Lancaster County, told the Board of Zoning Appeals that staff has been meeting weekly with an ad hoc County Council committee on the Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) rewrite and that the effort has recently accelerated.
"I can give you an update on our unified development ordinance," Harden said, describing meetings that began in late November and continued through December and into the current month. She said the rewrite is addressing setbacks, minimum lot sizes and whether to offer an option that reduces minimum lot size without increasing overall density.
Harden described the existing approach to…
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