Check this out:
“Pedestrian friendly street design (buildings close to street; porches, windows & doors; tree-lined streets; on street parking; hidden parking lots; garages in rear lane; narrow, slow speed streets)”
“A mix of shops, offices, apartments, and homes on site. Mixed-use within neighborhoods, within blocks, and within buildings”
“Pedestrian-friendly design that encourages a greater use of bicycles, rollerblades, scooters, and walking as daily transportation”
Sound familiar? These are principles of the New Urbanism movement. All good things… and they already exist: in the City of Lancaster.
Funny how all the things that progressive planners are currently prescribing for new places have existed for years. My neighborhood is just like this, and it was built when they were still calling WWI “the Great War”.
So, you want to be hip and progressive? You want save farm land and be forward–thinking? Don’t wait for somebody to build a new town from scratch… come to Lancaster and enjoy a mature, built-out, new urban environment and begin enjoying the benefits immediately. And see it by scooter.
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I couldn't agree more. Lancaster city is great. What's sad is that so many of the satellite town centers are abandoned or ignored.
Beautiful buildings, cheap rental rates, etc. Can't figure out where
Have you read Kunsler's "The Geography of Nowhere?" Talks about poor planning, highway/mall wastelands, and how they can't survive for much longer.
All those things are in Lititz too :) We're growing with new "hip" businesses... the town is 95% indie retail. The new Master Plan is awesome... It really isn't your grandmother's Lititz anymore...
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