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Pennsylvania
Envision Lancaster County Recognizes Local Smart Growth Projects
Created four years ago by county commissioners, planners and numerous public, private and nonprofit stakeholders to ensure development in balance with the quality of life, the Envision Lancaster County group recognized ten area jurisdictions and other entities for their varied smart-growth initiatives and projects.
In the Leadership category, reports Lancaster Intelligencer Journal writer P.J. Reilly, Rapho Township was honored for its village overlay zone, whose design standards protect local heritage; Newport Square Associates and RGS Associates, for their environmentally sound, varied-type-and-income housing, including rentals, in Warwick Township; and RLPS Architects and Warwick School District, for community-inspired improvements at Lititz Elementary School.
In the Achievement category, Ephrata Borough and Ephrata Performing Arts Center won a smart-growth award for the $2.4 million renovation and expansion of their park playhouse; East Hempfield Township and Charter Homes, for adoption and implementation of ordinances that allow higher-density housing while preserving open space; Strasburg Borough and Strasburg Community Parks Foundation, for creating a 12-acre community park, with an amphitheater, pedestrian trails and wildflower meadows; Manheim Borough, Reifen Rubber Co., Restore 'N More and Slip Industries for their joint work to acquire, renovate and reuse the blighted former Agway Mill site; Community Basic Inc. and EG Stoltzfus Construction, for converting the former New Holland Machine Co. plant and headquarters into 56 units of affordable workforce housing; and Manheim Township, for expanding its historic overlay district to spur adaptive building reuse for residential needs.
In addition, the Lancaster Farmland Trust and the Lancaster Regional Medical Center received a Certificate of Merit for their cooperation in building a health center in Warwick Township and preserving 100 acres of adjacent farmland. -- Intelligencer Journal
11/16/2004
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