Resident urges Lancaster County committee to redraw moratorium boundary, requests counsel letter
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At a Lancaster County ad hoc development agreement committee meeting, resident Libby Sweat asked the committee to reconsider moratorium lines near Highway 5, said 4 p.m. meetings exclude working residents, and said she has not received a counsel letter she requested two months earlier.
Libby Sweat told the Lancaster County Council ad hoc development agreement committee that the timing and scope of the county's moratorium have left residents confused and excluded from the process.
"04:00 in the afternoon is not a time that is conducive to most people being able to attend," Sweat said during citizen's comments, asking the committee to consider scheduling that would allow broader participation. She said she supports "smart growth, not all growth," and voiced concern that the moratorium “stopped at Highway 5” while other groups appeared poised to advance developments below that line.
Sweat asked the committee to "reconsider your moratorium lines" and requested a new moratorium drawing before the county moves forward with development agreements. She said she had requested a written explanation from county counsel two months earlier about how the boundary was decided and had not received the letter. "I've yet to receive a letter," she said, adding that community members remained "very, very confused."
The committee did not respond with a public decision on the moratorium during the meeting; the agenda moved on to approval of minutes and an executive session on a separate contractual matter. No formal action to change the moratorium or to provide the requested counsel letter was recorded in the meeting minutes.
The public comment was recorded during the citizen's comment portion of the meeting; the committee proceeded to routine business and then entered executive session to seek legal advice on an unrelated development agreement.
