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West Chester planning commission flags PennDOT-driven street standards, seeks targeted zoning fixes
Summary
At a Feb. 2 work session, the West Chester Planning Commission identified conflicts between new unified residential design standards and the borough's historic street fabric — including an inserted 15-foot exterior-wall spacing and PennDOT-derived 25-foot paving-radius rules — and asked staff and consultants for targeted amendments.
The West Chester Planning Commission on Feb. 2 reviewed a series of proposed zoning and design-code changes and asked staff to prepare a limited, actionable package of amendments that would reconcile the borough's historic street patterns with new unified residential development standards.
Commissioners and staff spent the meeting highlighting technical inconsistencies that could make desirable, walkable projects nonconforming under the proposed language. A central concern was a newly inserted measurement in a draft design standard requiring a minimum distance between exterior walls of buildings — described in the meeting as 15 feet — which several commissioners said should be removed or handled as a…
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