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Council directs revisions after heated public hearing on proposed small-parcel TOD at 1180 Church Road
Summary
At a public hearing March 18, residents and council debated a developer-backed zoning change to allow a small-parcel transit-oriented development. Speakers urged keeping mixed-use requirements; council voted to direct staff and the solicitor to revise the advertised ordinance and return it to planning and code committees for further review.
A majority of Lansdale Borough Council voted March 18 to direct solicitor staff to revise a proposed text amendment to the borough’s transit-oriented development (TOD) overlay after a lengthy public hearing in which residents urged that mixed-use protections be retained.
The public hearing concerned a draft ordinance advertised to allow redevelopment of parcels smaller than the current 20-acre minimum inside the borough’s TOD overlay. Solicitor Hitchens explained that the advertised version is the legal document before the council and that suggested red-line edits circulated afterward could be incorporated only if council directed staff to prepare a revision and re-advertise.
Developer Christopher Canavan, president of WB Homes, told the council his group controls a 6.6-acre parking-lot parcel adjacent to the Penbrook Train Station and proposed 74 townhomes. Canavan…
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